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Cavernous


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Cavernous is an adjective that means very large.

A cavern is usually understood as a large cave. Its roots in the Latin language reveal that it evolved from the word cavus (KAH voose) which means ‘hollow.’

The cavernous lodging for us was much larger than we needed for a family of three. In fact it was so huge, we could have easily housed twenty people there.

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