cave

A cliffside cave.

Meanings

A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
A collapse or cave-in.
The vagina.
A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
A code cave.

To surrender.
To collapse.
To hollow out or undermine.
To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
To dwell in a cave.

From Middle English cave, borrowed from Old French cave, from Latin cava ("cavity"), from cavus. Cognate with Tocharian B kor, Albanian cup ("odd, uneven"), Ancient Greek κύαρ ("eye of needle, earhole"), Old Armenian սոր ("hole"), Sanskrit शून्य ("empty, barren, zero"). Displaced native .
Borrowed from Latin cavē, second-person singular present active imperative of caveō. Used at Eton College, Berkshire.

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