Definition of Cave

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Definition of Cave

Cave

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.

To make hollow; to scoop out.

To dwell in a cave.

To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.

A coalition or group of seceders from a political party, as from the Liberal party in England in 1866. See Adullam, Cave of, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

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Cave Quotations

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Jose Marti

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
Angus Young

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
Nina Simone

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.
Richard Gere

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
Theodore Sturgeon

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.
Tim LaHaye

Cave Translations

cave in Afrikaans is grot
cave in Dutch is grot
cave in Finnish is kolo
cave in French is antre, creux, grotte
cave in Hungarian is barlang
cave in Latin is specus
cave in Norwegian is grotte
cave in Portuguese is caverna
cave in Spanish is gruta, cueva

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