Crossword clues for grotto
grotto
- Underground chamber
- Spelunking site
- Lourdes attraction
- Isle of Capri attraction
- Capri attraction
- Spelunking locale
- Lourdes miracle setting
- Hidden cave
- Capri has a famous one
- Capri feature
- Tiberius' villa at Sperlonga included one
- Subterranean space
- Santa's cave
- Pretty cave
- Lourdes sight
- It might flood at high tide
- Feature of the gardens at Versailles
- Destination for Lourdes pilgrims
- Capri's blue thing
- Capri's Blue ___
- Capri allure
- Blue ___ (Capri sea cave)
- Below-ground hideout
- Blue ___ (Capri attraction)
- Natural hideout
- Small cavern
- Cave
- Natural shelter
- A small cave (usually with attractive features)
- Capri's Blue _____
- Capri has a blue one
- Capri's is blue
- Greek and German fancy underground area
- Mostly unpleasant round small cave
- Attractive cave reached round river
- Circling river, arrived at cave
- Cave not entirely unpleasant? Nothing more
- Stable sort nearly races to enter small cave
- Small attractive cave
- Skirting river, reached cave
- Artificial cave
- Rubbish to put in fancy hollow?
- Reached where river enters cave
- Picturesque cavern
- Imitation cave
- Underground place, mostly nasty and hot on the inside
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
grotto \grot"to\ (gr[o^]t"t[-o]), n.; pl. Grottoes (gr[o^]t"t[=o]z). [Formerly grotta, fr. It. grotta, LL. grupta, fr. L. crypta a concealed subterranean passage, vault, cavern, Gr. kry`pth, fr. krypto`s concealed, fr. kry`ptein to conceal. Cf. Grot, Crypt.] A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Italian grotta, ultimately from Latin crypta "vault, cavern," from Greek krypte "hidden place" (see crypt). Terminal -o may be from its being spelled that way in many translations of Dante's "Divine Comedy."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small cave. 2 An artificial cavern-like retreat. 3 A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A grotto (Italian grotta and French grotte) is a natural or artificial cave used by humans in both modern times, and historically or prehistorically. Naturally occurring grottoes are often small caves near water that are usually flooded or liable to flood at high tide. Sometimes, artificial grottoes are used as garden features. The Grotta Azzurra at Capri and the grotto at the villa of Tiberius in the Bay of Naples are examples of popular natural seashore grottoes.
Whether in tidal water or high up in hills, grottoes are generally made up of limestone geology, where the acidity of standing water has dissolved the rock matrix' carbonates as it passes through what were originally small fissures. See karst topography, cavern.
A grotto is a cave with cultural significance, or a garden feature imitating it.
Grotto may also mean:
- A synonym for a small cave or a chamber within a cave
- A traditional restaurant in Italian-speaking Switzerland (called this because originally they were caves designed to store food)
Grotto may also refer to:
A Grotto is an internal organization of the National Speleological Society (NSS). They generally function as the local NSS chapter/club. Many Grottos however, operate in areas outside of their local area, with many operating in several states. Most Grottos also participate in Regions which are loose associations of Grottos. Regions are also an internal organization of the National Speleological Society.
Within the Church of Satan, a Grotto (from Italian grotta, a type of cave) is a clandestine association or gathering of Satanists within geographical proximity for means of social, ritual, and special interest activities. The Black House, the founding place and headquarters of the Church of Satan from 1966 to 1997, was effectively the first grotto, and was for a time referred to as the "Central Grotto". Grottos existed for a time in various parts of the United States; these included the Babylon Grotto in Detroit, the Stygian Grotto in Dayton, and the Lilith Grotto in New York. In 1975, LaVey disbanded all grottos , then reinstated them in the 1980s. The Church of Satan no longer formally recognizes or charters grottos.
Usage examples of "grotto".
Francis directed his steps to a grotto in the country near Assisi, which he entered alone.
Half an hour from Assisi in the direction of Beviglia is a grotto, which may very well be that of which we are about to speak.
In a moment, he was inside the grotto and bobbing up to the surface, floating in the pure beam of sunlight from the blowhole some fifteen feet above his head.
All that is in this grotto, my friend, my house in the Champs Elysees, and my chateau at Treport, are the marriage gifts bestowed by Edmond Dantes upon the son of his old master, Morrel.
There had been a large park called the Deval Forest, where it was always cool under the heavy canopy of trees or willow arbors, even in hot weather, and winding streams led to waterfalls and dripping grottoes.
The children had searched for this sugar bowl from the highest peak of the Mortmain Mountains to the underwater depths of the Gorgonian Grotto, but had neither found this sugar bowl nor learned why it was so important.
Also, Neb and Pencroft having gone to examine into the state of things at Port Balloon, and reported that the stock of cloth would suffer no damage in the grotto where it was stored, it was decided that the work at Prospect Heights should not be discontinued.
Shark Gulf, the plateau of Prospect Heights, Safety Islet, the granite rocks of Port Balloon, the basalts of Dakkar Grotto, the long Serpentine Peninsula, so distant nevertheless from the center of the eruption.
There was another round of back slapping and hugs, and then the five of them went down to the grotto, where Ron had tied up the dinghy, and Harry waved goodbye to them, feeling that something good could come out of this after all.
Personnel were still out in the field, and Castelletti had taken off in the helicopter at first light, while Scala had left before then to go back to the grotto with two of the Belgian Malinois and their handlers, still not convinced that they had searched all of it.
At this moment there opened before us a large grotto dug in a picturesque heap of rocks and carpeted with all the thick warp of the submarine flora.
But his demeanor was calm enough as he led the way down the winding ramp that entered the Underworld beside the Baths of Constantinus and guided them toward the grotto where the rites of Priapus were enacted.
From hidden springs it rises, and to subterranean grottoes it flows, so that the Daemon of the Valley knows not why its waters are red, nor whither they are bound.
I think, near that place, with a Saracen Emir with whom he had some MELEE in the way of proof of valour, and finding him worthy to bear brave men company, they went together, as errant knights are wont, to the grotto of Engaddi.
I twitted her as I pushed myself back till I was crammed inside her to the very hilt, wanting that luxuriating completeness of being thoroughly and fully housed inside her warm narrow quivering grotto.