Definitions
hollow out as if making a cavern
Word origin
From Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).
Used in a sentence
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.”
“a dark cavern of a shop”
“catacombs caverning the hillsides”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Subterranean hollow”6 letters
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