cavern meaning

Noun: cavern  kavurn

1. Any large dark enclosed space
   "his eyes were dark caverns" 
2. A large cave or a large chamber in a cave

Verb: cavern  kavurn

1. Hollow out as if making a cavern
   - cavern out

Derived forms: caverns, caverned, caverning

See also: cavernous

Type of: cave, core out, enclosure, hollow, hollow out, natural enclosure

Encyclopedia: Cavern

[Medicine]
n : a cavity (as in the lung) caused by disease

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1. as more blood is forced in, the tiny cavern swells.
2. having found it, i shall bear it to a certain cavern.
3. the howling monster with his outcry filled the cavern.
4. oscar spoke solemnly, as from the depths of a cavern.
5. he threw the brightness of his nature over every abyss and cavern through which he strayed.