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Word entry · 9 letters

cavernous

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"Vast and echoing"

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈkav.ən.əs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted acenorsuvStarts with CEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood

Word origin

Late Middle English cavernous, cavernose, borrowing from Old French caverneux or Latin cavernōsus (“full of hollows or cavities”), from caverna (“a hollow, cavity, cave”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to cavern + -ous.

Used in a sentence

  • At 8:34 p.m. Saturday night, in the cavernous ballroom at the Washington Hilton, I heard a loud crashing noise, like a big tray of dinner plates hitting the floor.
  • cavernous eyes

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