Usually means: Underground chamber formed by nature.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cave: Merriam-Webster
  2. cave, cave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cave, cave, cave: Wordnik
  7. cave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cave, cave: Wiktionary
  9. cave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cave: Dictionary.com
  13. cave (n.), cave (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CAVE (company), Cave (band), Cave (company), Cave (disambiguation), Cave (name), Cave (song), Cave, The Cave (Mumford & Sons song), The Cave (film), The Cave (novel), The Cave (opera), The Cave (song), The Cave (video game), The Cave, The cave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cave: Rhymezone
  19. cave, cave (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CAVE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. cave: FreeDictionary.org
  23. cave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cave: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. cave: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  2. Cave: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAVE: CCI Computer
  2. cave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. CAVE: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. cave: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cave: Easton Bible
  2. Cave: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cave: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cave, cave, cave: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. C.A.V.E, cave, the cave: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
noun:  A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
noun:  A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
noun:  A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
noun:  (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
noun:  (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
noun:  (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
noun:  (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
noun:  (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
noun:  (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
noun:  (obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
noun:  (programming) A code cave.
verb:  (figurative) To surrender.
verb:  To collapse.
verb:  To hollow out or undermine.
verb:  To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
verb:  (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
verb:  (mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
verb:  (obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
noun:  The 18th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A town and comune in Lazio, Italy.
noun:  A village in Lincoln County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  A settlement in Timaru district, Canterbury, New Zealand.

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