cave – English noun declension

English noun forms of cave

Noun: cave
Singularcave
Pluralcaves

Sample Sentences

  • We found a cave on the mountainside where we could take shelter.
  • The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Every boy at one time or another has dug a cave; I suppose because ages and ages ago his ancestors had to live in caves, […] [1918, Edward Alfred Steiner, Uncle Joe's Lincoln, page 52:]
  • This wine has been aged in our cave for thirty years.
  • My room was a cozy cave where I could escape from my family.
  • It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.
  • These potential radiation fields or radioactive material levels may be the result of normal operations (ie, radiation in a target cave) […] [1986, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Radiation Alarms and Access Control Systems, →ISBN, page 45:]
  • […] the casing can then be placed in the hole without encountering any cave and core drilling in rock can begin. [1951, James Deans Cumming, Diamond Drill Handbook, page 134:]
  • The "breasts" of marble which unite the opposite lateral walls have been left standing in order to prevent a possible cave of the wall on either side. [1885, Angelo Heilprin, Town Geology: The Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks, page 79:]
  • Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wet cave like dried brush about a hidden spring. [1976, Chester Himes, My Life of Absurdity, page 59:]
  • Without joining the cave, Hyde had abstained both in December 1956 and May 1957. [1964, Leon D. Epstein, British Politics in the Suez Crisis, page 125:]
  • the cave of the ear [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
  • Once a code cave is created, you can execute it using either thread injection or thread hijacking. […] Additionally, you'd need to make sure that the cave properly cleans the stack. [2016, Nick Cano, Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games:]

Etymology

From Middle English cave, borrowed from Old French cave, from Latin cava (“cavity”), from cavus (“hollow”). Cognate with Tocharian B kor (“throat”), Albanian cup (“odd, uneven”), Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “eye of needle, earhole”), Old Armenian սոր (sor, “hole”), Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “empty, barren, zero”). Displaced native Old English sċræf. More at cavum, cavus and cage. See: Middle English Nouns 'cave', Latin Nouns 'cava', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κύαρ'.

Verbs referencing "cave"

English Nouns gabion.