Definitions for Cave

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Cave cave

Spelling: [keyv]

IPA: /keɪv/

Cave is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Cave (acev).

Definitions for Cave

noun

1. a hollow in the earth, especially one opening more or less horizontally into a hill, mountain, etc.
2. a storage cellar, especially for wine.
3. English History. a secession, or a group of seceders, from a political party on some special question.

Verb phrases

1. cave in, to fall in; collapse. to cause to fall in or collapse. Informal. to yield; submit; surrender:

verb (used with object)

1. to hollow out.
2. Mining. to cause (overlying material) to fall into a stope, sublevel, or the like. to cause (supports, as stulls or sets) to collapse beneath overlying material. to fill (a stope or the like) with caved-in material:

verb (used without object)

1. to cave in.

Origin of Cave

1175-1225; Middle English Old French Late Latin cava (feminine singular), Latin cava, neuter plural of cavum hole, noun use of neuter of cavus hollow

Examples for Cave

She then returned to the mouth of the cave, and knelt down at Richard Digby's feet.

But he thrust his head into the cave, shivered, and congratulated himself.

Its name translates to “cave of the Stone Sepulcher,” but locally it is called by a nickname that means “a place of fear.”

He is silent and abstracted, like one just returned from the cave of Trophonius.

Cast Angelina Jolie in that role with Brad Pitt as the cave hubbie, and maybe we have a blockbuster in the making.

Tse-tse talked to the girl, of all things, about the love-gift she had put in the cave for me.

The existence of the images—which resemble the styles and themes found in European cave art—has been known for some time.

Quite often the cave gave way to the pressure of the surrounding rock.

It was dark, dank, the walls charcoal-colored, the feeling of a cave.

Ironically, the first archaeologist to explore the cave had a connection to the most legendary fictional explorer.