cave

[Cave]

A cave is hollow space underground that's big enough for a person to walk or crawl into. People who explore caves often wear battery powered headlamps.

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A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

Noun
an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea

Verb
explore natural caves

Verb
hollow out as if making a cave or opening; "The river was caving the banks"

n.
A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

n.
Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.

n.
To make hollow; to scoop out.

v. i.
To dwell in a cave.

v. i.
To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.

Cave

Cave , n. [F. cave, L. cavus hollow, whence cavea cavity. Cf. Cage.] 1. A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den. 2. Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. [Obs.] "The cave of the ear." Bacon. Cave bear (Zo'94l.), a very large fossil bear (Ursus spel'91us) similar to the grizzly bear, but large; common in European caves. -- Cave dweller, a savage of prehistoric times whose dwelling place was a cave. Tylor. -- Cave hyena (Zo'94l.), a fossil hyena found abundanty in British caves, now usually regarded as a large variety of the living African spotted hyena. -- Cave lion (Zo'94l.), a fossil lion found in the caves of Europe, believed to be a large variety of the African lion. -- Bone cave. See under Bone.

Cave

Cave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Caving.] [Cf. F. caver. See Cave, n.] To make hollow; to scoop out. [Obs.]

The mouldred earth cav'd the banke.

Cave

Cave, v. i. 1. To dwell in a cave. [Obs.] Shak. 2. [See To cave in, below.] To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter. To cave in. [Flem. inkalven.] (a) To fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. (b) To submit; to yield. [Slang] H. Kingsley.

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

To make hollow; to scoop out.

To dwell in a cave.

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Usage Examples

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

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Other Usage Examples

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.