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See also:Cave,çavë,cavé,cåve,ca ve,andca-ve

English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishcave, borrowed fromOld Frenchcave, fromLatincava(“cavity”), fromcavus(“hollow”). Cognate withTocharian Bkor(“throat”),Albaniancup(“odd, uneven”),Ancient Greekκύαρ(kúar,“eye of needle, earhole”),Old Armenianսոր(sor,“hole”),Sanskritशून्य(śūnya,“empty, barren, zero”). Displaced nativeOld Englishsċræf. More atcavum,cavus andcage.

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Noun

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cave (pluralcaves)

A cliffsidecave.
  1. A large, naturally-occurringcavity formedunderground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
    We found acave on the mountainside where we could take shelter.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      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 incaves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
  2. A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
    • 1918, Edward Alfred Steiner,Uncle Joe's Lincoln‎[1], page52:
      Every boy at one time or another has dug acave; I suppose because ages and ages ago his ancestors had to live in caves,[…]
  3. A storagecellar, especially forwine orcheese.
    This wine has been aged in ourcave for thirty years.
  4. A place of retreat, such as aman cave.
    My room was a cozycave where I could escape from my family.
  5. (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity inbedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
    It was not strictly acave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.
  6. (nuclear physics) Ashielded area where nuclearexperiments can be carried out.
    • 1986, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements,Radiation Alarms and Access Control Systems‎[2],→ISBN, page45:
      These potential radiation fields or radioactive material levels may be the result of normal operations (ie, radiation in a targetcave)[…]
  7. (drilling, uncountable)Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
    • 1951, James Deans Cumming,Diamond Drill Handbook‎[3], page134:
      […] the casing can then be placed in the hole without encountering anycave and core drilling in rock can begin.
  8. (mining) Acollapse orcave-in.
    • 1885,Angelo Heilprin,Town Geology: The Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks‎[4], page79:
      The "breasts" of marble which unite the opposite lateral walls have been left standing in order to prevent a possiblecave of the wall on either side.
  9. (figuratively, also slang) Thevagina.
    • 1976,Chester Himes,My Life of Absurdity‎[5], page59:
      Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wetcave like dried brush about a hidden spring.
  10. (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
    • 1964, Leon D. Epstein,British Politics in the Suez Crisis‎[6], page125:
      Without joining thecave, Hyde had abstained both in December 1956 and May 1957.
  11. (obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
    • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:
      thecave of the ear
  12. (programming) Acode cave.
    • 2016, Nick Cano,Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games:
      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 thecave properly cleans the stack.
Synonyms
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Translations
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large, naturally occurring cavity formed underground
hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock
storage cellar
place of retreat
caving: naturally-occurring cavity large enough to be entered by an adult
nuclear physics: shielded place for nuclear experiments
drilling debris
mining: collapse or cave-in
figurative: vagina
political slang: group that breaks on a particular issue
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Verb

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cave (third-person singular simple presentcaves,present participlecaving,simple past and past participlecaved)

Personcaving.
  1. (figurative) Tosurrender.
    Hecaved under pressure.
    • 2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “Productivity should play no part in pay negotiations”, inRAIL, number972, page46:
      Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, theycaved in.
    • 2023 September 29, Sam Jones, “Alberto Núñez Feijóo fails to win Spanish MPs’ backing to become PM”, inThe Guardian‎[7],→ISSN:
      On Friday morning, Salvador Illa, the former health minister of Spain who now leads the Catalan branch of the PSOE, said the socialists would be happy to fight another general election rather thancave to Junts and the ERC’s demands.
  2. Tocollapse.
    First the braces buckled, then the roof began tocave, then we ran.
  3. Tohollow out orundermine.
    The levee has been severelycaved by the river current.
  4. To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
    Synonym:spelunk
    • 2007 September 29, Kate Humble, “What lies beneath”, inThe Guardian‎[8]:
      Pam has beencaving for 25 years. She and her husband Tim are among the top cavers in the country. They are passionate about the world hidden beneath our feet and they were to be my instructors and guides on my first ever foray below ground that didn't involve getting on the tube.
  5. (mining) Inroom-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
    The deposit iscaved by knocking out the posts.
  6. (mining, obsolete) To work overtailings todress small pieces of marketable ore.
    • 1999, Andy Wood,The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770‎[9],→ISBN, page319:
      As an indication of the miners' desperation in these years, the free miners of Wensley lowered themselves tocaving for scraps of ore.
  7. (obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
    • a.1611,William Shakespeare,Cymbeline, act 4, scene 2:
      although perhaps / It may be heard at court that such as we /Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time / May make some stronger head
Derived terms
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Translations
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to surrender
to collapse
to undermine

Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromLatincavē, second-person singular present active imperative ofcaveō(“to beware”). Used atEton College, Berkshire.

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Interjection

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cave

  1. (British, schoolslang)look out!;beware!
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beware!

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Etruscan

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Romanization

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cave

  1. Romanization of𐌂𐌀𐌅𐌄

French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromLatincavus(“concave; cavity”).

Adjective

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cave (pluralcaves)

  1. pitted
  2. concave
  3. cavernous

Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromLate Latincava, substantivized form ofLatincava, feminine of the adjectivecavus.

Noun

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cave f (pluralcaves)

  1. acellar orbasement
  2. (specifically) awine cellar; or, a piece of furniture that serves the purpose of a wine cellar
  3. (by extension) a wine selection
  4. caves: An estate where wine grapes are grown or (especially) where wine is produced
  5. cave à liqueurs: Achest for the storage ofliquors
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Etymology 3

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Probably fromcavé, from the past participle ofcaver, a term used in games.

Noun

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cave m (pluralcaves)

  1. (slang) animbecile, astupid person

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Galician

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Verb

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cave

  1. inflection ofcavar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈka.ve/
  • Rhymes:-ave
  • Hyphenation:cà‧ve

Adjective

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cave

  1. feminineplural ofcavo

Noun

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cave f

  1. plural ofcava

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Latin

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cavē

  1. second-personsingularpresentimperative ofcaveō

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromOld Frenchcave, fromLatincava.

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Noun

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cave (pluralcaves)

  1. Acave orcavern.
  2. (by extension) Anundergroundchamber.
  3. Acavity; ahollow.
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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cave

  1. Alternative form ofcaven

Norman

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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cave f (pluralcaves)

  1. (Jersey)cave,cellar

Portuguese

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  • Rhymes:(Brazil)-avi,(Portugal)-avɨ
  • Hyphenation:ca‧ve

Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromFrenchcave.[1][2]

Noun

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cave f (pluralcaves)

  1. cellar

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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cave

  1. inflection ofcavar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

References

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  1. ^“cave”, inDicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora,2003–2025
  2. ^“cave”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam,2008–2025

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkabe/[ˈka.β̞e]
  • Rhymes:-abe
  • Syllabification:ca‧ve

Etymology 1

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Deverbal fromcavar.

Noun

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cave m (pluralcaves)

  1. (Ecuador)potato harvesting

Etymology 2

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Verb

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cave

  1. inflection ofcavar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

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