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Meaning of stope | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

/[stoʊp]/

Definitions

A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.

Examples

“The other smell […] that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes, from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

stoper stoperator stopes Stopford Stopfordian Stopgap