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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CAVERN, n. A deep hollow place in the earth. In general, it differs from cave in greater depth, and in being applied most usually to natural hollows, or chasms.
Earth with its caverns dark and deep.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any large dark enclosed space; "his eyes were dark caverns"
2: a large cave or a large chamber in a cave v
1: hollow out as if making a cavern [syn: cavern, cavern out]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English caverne, from Middle French, from Latin caverna, from cavus Date: 14th century cave; especially one of large or indefinite extent II. transitive verb Date: circa 1630 1. to place in or as if in a cavern 2. to form a cavern of ; hollow — used with out

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a cave, esp. a large or dark one. 2 a dark cavelike place, e.g. a room. Derivatives: cavernous adj. cavernously adv. Etymology: ME f. OF caverne or f. L caverna f. cavus hollow

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(caverns) A cavern is a large deep cave. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Grotto, cave, den, grot.

Moby Thesaurus

abri, antre, bunker, burrow, cave, cove, dugout, foxhole, grot, grotto, hole, lair, sewer, subterrane, subterranean, subway, tunnel, warren