"grotto" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɡɹɒt.əʊ/ [UK], /ˈɡɹɑ.toʊ/ [US] Audio: en-us-grotto.ogg [US], en-au-grotto.ogg [Australia] Forms: grottos [plural], grottoes [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒtəʊ Etymology: From Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin grupta, from Classical Latin crypta. Doublet of crypt. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|grotta}} Italian grotta, {{der|en|VL.|grupta}} Vulgar Latin grupta, {{der|en|la|crypta}} Latin crypta, {{doublet|en|crypt}} Doublet of crypt Head templates: {{en-noun|s|grottoes}} grotto (plural grottos or grottoes)
  1. A small cave. Translations (small cave): grot (Afrikaans), غَار (ḡār) [masculine] (Arabic), مَغَارَة (maḡāra) [feminine] (Arabic), غار (ḡār) [Hijazi-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), مَغارة (maḡāra) [Hijazi-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), пещера (peštera) [feminine] (Bulgarian), gruta [feminine] (Catalan), 石窟 (shíkū) (Chinese Mandarin), jeskyňka [feminine] (Czech), grotte [common-gender] (Danish), grot (Dutch), groto (Esperanto), luola (Finnish), grotte [feminine] (French), gruta [feminine] (Galician), Grotte [feminine] (German), कंदरा (kandrā) (Hindi), गुहा (guhā) [masculine] (Hindi), गार (gār) [masculine] (Hindi), grottó (Hungarian), hellir [masculine] (Icelandic), gruota [feminine] (Istriot), grotta [feminine] (Italian), caverna [feminine] (Italian), santuario [masculine] (Italian), 岩屋 (iwaya) (alt: いわや) (Japanese), 洞穴 (dōketsu) (alt: どうけつ) (Japanese), үңгір (üñgır) (Kazakh), caverna [feminine] (Latin), groto [Rumi] (Malay), غار (ğâr) (Persian), مغاره (mağâre) (Persian), grota [feminine] (Polish), gruta [feminine] (Portuguese), grotă [feminine] (Romanian), грот (grot) [masculine] (Russian), gruta [feminine] (Spanish), grotta [common-gender] (Swedish), gruta (Tagalog), mağara (Turkish), grota [feminine] (Venetian)
    Sense id: en-grotto-en-noun-WbG99nmM Disambiguation of 'small cave': 97 0 0 2 0
  2. An artificial cavern-like retreat. Translations (artificial cavern-like retreat): grotta [feminine] (Czech), grotte [common-gender] (Danish), groto (Esperanto), luola (Finnish), grotte [feminine] (French), Grotte [feminine] (German), gruta [feminine] (Portuguese), gruta [feminine] (Spanish), grotta [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-grotto-en-noun-yrCKYBda Disambiguation of 'artificial cavern-like retreat': 0 89 7 3 2
  3. A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure. Categories (place): Landforms
    Sense id: en-grotto-en-noun-53niyC1W Disambiguation of Landforms: 7 8 36 16 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 3 36 21 40
  4. A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club. Categories (topical): Caving Categories (place): Landforms
    Sense id: en-grotto-en-noun-ZORzEhde Disambiguation of Caving: 8 24 23 33 12 Disambiguation of Landforms: 7 8 36 16 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 3 36 21 40
  5. (Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists. Categories (place): Landforms
    Sense id: en-grotto-en-noun-Xmwh~e7C Disambiguation of Landforms: 7 8 36 16 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 3 36 21 40
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: grot, Santa's grotto

Inflected forms

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          "lang": "Turkish",
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          "ref": "2004, Anthony D. Barnosky, Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle Pleistocene: The Porcupine Cave Fauna from Colorado",
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          "ref": "2008, Neil Miller, Kartchner Caverns: How Two Cavers Discovered and Saved One of the Wonders of the Natural World",
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        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
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  ],
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}
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    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English doublets",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Italian",
    "English terms derived from Italian",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Vulgar Latin",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒtəʊ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒtəʊ/2 syllables",
    "en:Caving",
    "en:Landforms"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "grot"
    },
    {
      "word": "Santa's grotto"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "it",
        "3": "grotta"
      },
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      "name": "bor"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "VL.",
        "3": "grupta"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "crypta"
      },
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    },
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "crypt"
      },
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    }
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      "form": "grottos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "s",
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      },
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "A small cave."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cave",
          "cave"
        ]
      ]
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "An artificial cavern-like retreat."
      ],
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          "artificial"
        ],
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          "cavern"
        ],
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          "retreat"
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      "glosses": [
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      ],
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          "Marian",
          "Marian"
        ],
        [
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          "shrine"
        ]
      ]
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1987, National Speleological Society, NSS News, volumes 45-46, page 331",
          "text": "An earlier attempt to organize a grotto in the Indiana, PA, area in the mid-1970s failed to succeed, but from it developed the informal Chestnut Ridge Explorers Association.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Anthony D. Barnosky, Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle Pleistocene: The Porcupine Cave Fauna from Colorado",
          "text": "By the mid-1940s members of local grottos (regional clubs of cavers within the National Speleological Society) were exploring Porcupine Cave (Bloch, 1946).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Neil Miller, Kartchner Caverns: How Two Cavers Discovered and Saved One of the Wonders of the Natural World",
          "text": "The answer to the question, “Are there any caves in Arizona?” was always the laconic “None to speak of,” with emphasis on the “to speak of.” This secrecy dovetailed with the cave conservation ethic promoted by the local caving grotto.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      ],
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        [
          "caver",
          "caver"
        ],
        [
          "caving",
          "caving"
        ],
        [
          "club",
          "club"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists."
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹɒt.əʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹɑ.toʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒtəʊ"
    },
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/En-us-grotto.ogg/En-us-grotto.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/En-us-grotto.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-grotto.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/En-au-grotto.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "grot"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḡār",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "غَار"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "maḡāra",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "مَغَارَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "acw",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḡār",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "Hijazi-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "غار"
    },
    {
      "code": "acw",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "maḡāra",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "Hijazi-Arabic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "مَغارة"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "peštera",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пещера"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gruta"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shíkū",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "石窟"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jeskyňka"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "grotte"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "grot"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "groto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "luola"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grotte"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gruta"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Grotte"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "kandrā",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "कंदरा"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "guhā",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "गुहा"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "gār",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "गार"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "grottó"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hellir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ist",
      "lang": "Istriot",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gruota"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grotta"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "caverna"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "santuario"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いわや",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "iwaya",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "岩屋"
    },
    {
      "alt": "どうけつ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dōketsu",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "洞穴"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "üñgır",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "үңгір"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "caverna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "Rumi"
      ],
      "word": "groto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "ğâr",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "غار"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mağâre",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "مغاره"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grota"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gruta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grotă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grot",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "грот"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gruta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "grotta"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "gruta"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "word": "mağara"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "small cave",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grota"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "artificial cavern-like retreat",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grotta"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "artificial cavern-like retreat",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "grotte"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "artificial cavern-like retreat",
      "word": "groto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "artificial cavern-like retreat",
      "word": "luola"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "artificial cavern-like retreat",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grotte"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "artificial cavern-like retreat",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Grotte"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "artificial cavern-like retreat",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gruta"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "artificial cavern-like retreat",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gruta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "artificial cavern-like retreat",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "grotta"
    }
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}
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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Satanism",
  "path": [
    "grotto"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "grotto",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Satanism",
  "path": [
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  "subsection": "noun",
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}

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