cavernous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   being or suggesting a cavern

   Vast cavernous chambers hollowed out of limestone.

2. 2
   adj

   Resembling a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere.

   The last stop on the West Coast Main Line before you cross the border into Scotland, the strategically placed Carlisle Citadel is a station steeped in history. Opened on September 1 1847, the cavernous station was once home to seven railway companies in the pre-Grouping years.

3. 3
   adj

   filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood

4. 4
   adj

   Having many caverns.

Late Middle English cavernous, cavernose, borrowing from Old French caverneux or Latin cavernōsus (“full of hollows or cavities”), from caverna (“a hollow, cavity, cave”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to cavern + -ous.

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