cascade

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small waterfall, or a series of small waterfalls.

   A cascade tumbled over the rocks into the pool below.

2. 2
   noun

   A large amount of something falling or happening one after another.

   The news set off a cascade of phone calls.

3. 3
   verb

   To pour or fall down quickly in large amounts.

   Water cascaded down the mountainside after the storm.

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.

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