Usually means: Large volcanic crater from eruption.
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  1. caldera: Merriam-Webster
  2. caldera: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caldera: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caldera: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Caldera, caldera: Wordnik
  7. caldera: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. caldera: Wiktionary
  9. caldera: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. caldera: Infoplease Dictionary
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  12. caldera: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Caldera (album), Caldera (band), Caldera (company), Caldera (disambiguation), Caldera (film), Caldera, The Caldera: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. caldera: Rhymezone
  15. caldera: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. caldera: FreeDictionary.org
  17. caldera: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. caldera: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. caldera: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  5. caldera: Nine Planets Glossary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Caldera)

▸ noun:  (volcanology) A large crater formed by collapse of the cone or edifice of a volcano.
▸ noun:  A city, port, and commune in Copiapó province, Atacama region, northern Chile.
▸ noun:  A corregimiento in Boquete district, Chiriquí province, Panama.

Similar:
crater lake, crater, maar, cinder cone, somma, bowl, volcanoe, craterlet, cirque, pseudocrater, more...

Opposite:
peak

Types:
maar, saddle caldera, stratovolcano, composite volcano, shield volcano, dome volcano, more...

Phrases:
Rafael Caldera, volcanic caldera, caldera lake, Yellowstone Caldera, Santorini caldera, more...

Adjectives:
volcanic, large, great, huge, central, ancient, former, wide, old, main, present

Colors:
    crimson,     amber,     charcoal,     ash gray,     sulfur yellow, more...


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Similar:
crater lake, crater, maar, cinder cone, somma, bowl, volcanoe, craterlet, cirque, pseudocrater, more...

Opposite:
peak

Types:
maar, saddle caldera, stratovolcano, composite volcano, shield volcano, dome volcano, more...

Phrases:
Rafael Caldera, volcanic caldera, caldera lake, Yellowstone Caldera, Santorini caldera, Apolaki Caldera, La Garita Caldera, Long Valley Caldera, Valles Caldera, Wah Wah Springs Caldera, Aira Caldera, more...

Adjectives:
volcanic, large, great, huge, central, ancient, former, wide, old, main, present

Colors:
    crimson,     amber,     charcoal,     ash gray,     sulfur yellow, more...



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