crater
Meaning of crater
noun
- a large bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on a celestial object, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite.
the blast left a crater in the car park
Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, has relatively few impact craters
- a large bowl used in ancient Greece for mixing wine.
- form a crater in (the ground or a planet).
pilots returned to the airfields to crater the runways
early 17th century (denoting the hollow forming the mouth of a volcano): via Latin from Greek kratēr ‘mixing-bowl’, from krasis ‘mixture’.
Information about crater
- The plural form of crater is: craters.
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CatalanHyphenation of crater
crater
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- crater is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
crater synonyms
Meaning Crater:
Meaning a hole or depression in something:
Meaning a round, deep dish or basin used for food or liquid:
Meaning a bowl for washing, typically attached to a wall and having taps connected to a water supply; a washbasin:
Meaning a hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated:
Meaning a hollow place in a solid body or surface:
Meaning an empty space within a solid object:
Meaning a small bag sewn into or on clothing so as to form part of it, used for carrying small articles:
Meaning a large volcanic crater, especially one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano:
Meaning a broad, shallow crater, typically filled by a lake, formed by a volcanic eruption with little lava:
Meaning a volcanic crater emitting sulphurous and other gases:
Translation of crater
Anagrams of crater
arrect, Carter, carter, recart, tracer
Words that rhyme with crater
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