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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cavern
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
underground
▪ Squeeze along on your hands and knees, then wriggle flat on your stomach, and you may reach an underground cavern.
▪ Two hundred code writers, broken down into teams, entered the project as if it were some underground cavern.
▪ They would require extensive tunnelling through limestone under the Judean Hills where there was a danger of underground caverns or water.
▪ Evidence showed that almost twice as much gas had been loaded into the underground cavern, resulting in the blast.
▪ These are great vaulted underground caverns, the roof supported by columns which display a wide variety of capital design.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few that remain protrude from the side and top, synthetic stalactites in a cavern of the sea.
▪ Even access is not encouraged, and the tracks leading to the caverns are also closed.
▪ It was too soon; she was still in the cavern.
▪ Jewel-tipped stalactites hung from the cavern roof, aglow like many little lamps.
▪ The bats leave the caverns at sunset each day to feed on night-flying insects.
▪ The deepest is Lechuguilla, an undeveloped cavern that reaches 1, 567 feet into the Earth.
▪ The Environmental Protection Agency has authorised the storage of only 8,500 drums in the cavern over a five year test period.
▪ We swam in the chilly river of the Titou Gorge where it winds through caverns underground.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cavern

Cavern \Cav"ern\, n. [L. caverna, fr. cavus hollow: cf. F. caverne.] A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cavern

late 14c., from Old French caverne (12c.) "cave, vault, cellar," from Late Latin caverna "cave," from Latin cavus "hollow" (see cave (n.)). In Old English such a land feature might be called an eorðscræf.

Wiktionary
cavern

n. 1 A large cave. 2 An underground chamber.

WordNet
cavern
  1. n. any large dark enclosed space; "his eyes were dark caverns"

  2. a large cave or a large chamber in a cave

cavern

v. hollow out as if making a cavern [syn: cavern out]

Wikipedia
Cavern (disambiguation)

A cavern is another name for a cave or a large room within a cave.

Cavern or The Cavern may also refer to:

  • The Cavern Club or The Cavern, a rock-and-roll club in Liverpool, England
  • The Cavern (2005 film), a 2005 horror film
  • The Cavern (1964 film), directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
  • Caverns (novel), a 1989 novel written collaboratively as an experiment by Ken Kesey
  • "Cavern" (song), a song by Phish
  • "Cavern", a song from Liquid Liquid's 1983 EP Optimo
Cavern (song)

"Cavern" is a 1992 song by the American band Phish. It is the third track from their 1992 album A Picture of Nectar and was also released as their second promotional single by Elektra Records. The song is a beat-driven funk rock song written by Phish guitarist and lead vocalist Trey Anastasio and lyricist Scott Herman and Tom Marshall.

“Cavern” has been a rock in Phish’s rotation since early 1990. While most fans have become accustomed to the song as a set-closer or encore, initially it was much more versatile, appearing just about everywhere in the setlist. It was only beginning in 1992 that the band began utilizing it in its current role. In fact, beginning in fall 1992, well over half of the performances of “Cavern” have come either at the close of a set or during an encore. And no wonder: the song’s straight-up rock feel and fist-pumping climax make it a fitting exclamation point on the end of an evening of more excursionary jamming.

Usage examples of "cavern".

I They secured the end of the rope to one of the poles wedged like an anchor in the opening of the tunnel that led to the crystal cavern, and Craig abseiled down the rope to the water at the bottom of the shaft once more.

The hills above the Achor Marshes were riddled with deep limestone caverns, and they had been prepared as an alternate capital many years before, during one of the many factional wars that had marred the history of human relations of Kingdom.

The sound seemed to be coming from ahead of them, and she hoped that it was just the tricky acoustics of the cavern.

When I encountered him in the caverns, I thought he was merely Afrit, but Afrits do not have a skill with Fire.

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Celeste watched him with restless activity, made him take physic, applied blisters to him, went back and forth in the house, while old Amable remained at the edge of his loft, watching at a distance the gloomy cavern where his son lay dying.

While Angekok had often slept, exhausted from his satanic ecstasies, I had explored this cavern and now it was my fervent hope that an underground stream might bear me from this fate.

His success was due solely to his own natural vigor and energy and the smartness of Marsh Folsom, who could read and write and because of this could go some way to deciphering some of the meager clues they had found in the original Apps caverns and other Stockpiles.

Like an Edenist habitat, nobody lived on the cavern floor itself, it was a communal park and arable farm.

Since it was already early evening, the warriors had left the armory, but the large cavern was still full of whelps and boys, cleaning up, repairing leathers and harnesses, or raking the sand that covered the floor.

This cavern, from which The Shadow had dynamited a way to the Aureole shaft above, was the beginning of another trail that promised a solution to mysterious occurrences that still had Harry puzzled.

Thus we should profit by the heat of the stove, which was to cook our food and warm the cavern during the long days, or rather the long nights of the austral winter.

Within the pile of sand and soil and rock from which the pansies sprouted, were a maze of tiny crevices and caverns, and from each peeked the feathered head of an axolotl, speckled and foolish.

Rutot also said that stone tools like those of Boncelles had been found in Oligocene contexts at Baraque Michel and the cavern at Bay Bonnet.

Other carvings emerged from the dim recesses of the cavern, but Batman was momentarily spellbound by the sight of that largest figure.