cavern

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkav.ən/|/ˈkav.n̩/    美 /ˈkæv.ɚn/|/ˈkæv.ɹən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large cave.
  2. An underground chamber.
    — 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.
  3. A large, dark place or space.
    — a dark cavern of a shop
动词 v.
  1. To form a cavern or deep depression in. transitive
    — catacombs caverning the hillsides
  2. To put into a cavern. transitive

词形变化

caverns plural caverns present,singular,third-person caverning participle,present caverned participle,past caverned past

词汇关系

衍生词
cavernful cavernicolous cavernitis cavernlike cavernoma cavernous incaverned mesocavern

词源

词源 1
From Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).
词源 2
From Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).
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