cavern

Other forms of cavern

plural

caverns·

past tense

caverned·

present participle

caverning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cavern

What does cavern mean?

cavern means "any large dark enclosed space". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cavern?

cavern has 2 syllables: cav-ern. The stress falls on "cav". In IPA it is /ˈkævɚn/.

What is another word for cavern?

Close synonyms include cavern out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cavern a common word?

cavern is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.