Meaning of caverna | Babel Free
[kaˈwɛr.na]Definitions
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a hollow, cavity, cave, cavern, grotto, hole declension-1, feminine
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a vault, chamber, cleft of heaven declension-1, feminine
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a hold (cargo compartment of a ship) declension-1, feminine
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bodily orifice declension-1, euphemistic, feminine, vulgar
Equivalents
Examples
“striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat”
Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires
“Vae rubeo draconi; nam exterminatio eius festinat. Cavernas ipsius occupabit albus draco, qui Saxones quos invitasti significat.”
Woe to the red dragon; for his doom hastens. The white dragon, which represents the Saxons whom you invited, will seize his caves.
“Crispa tamen cunctas exercet corpore in uno: deglubit, fellat, molitur per utramque cavernam, ne quid inexpertum frustra moritura relinquat.”
Crispa, however, practises them all with one body: she masturbates, fellates, and is worked at either hole, lest she should die in vain leaving anything untried.
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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