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/keɪv/

Line drawing of cave
Coloured illustration of cave
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Translation

A large hole in the side of a hill or under the ground.

Word origin

From Old French cave, from Latin cava, meaning a hollow place.

Origin
Old French
Root
cava

Grammar

Gender
Pluralcaves

Examples

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"Cave" is a large hole in a hill or under the ground.

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"Caves" is the plural, meaning more than one cave.

drawings .

Here "cave" is the hollow space in the rock.

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This word is part of lesson 41.