Meaning & use
Cavate
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Hollowed out or excavated, especially describing a dwelling carved directly into rock.
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The cliffside village was known for its cavate homes cut into soft volcanic tuff.
Archaeologists mapped dozens of cavate rooms along the canyon wall.
A note on using this word
Cavate dwellings appear worldwide, from the American Southwest to Cappadocia in Turkey, wherever soft rock allowed people to carve homes directly into cliffs.
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2. noun
A room or dwelling carved out of rock.
The tour guide led them into a cavate once used for storage.
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