craters

Meaning of craters

plural noun
  1. 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
  2. a large bowl used in ancient Greece for mixing wine.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. 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 craters

  • The singular form of craters is: crater.
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Hyphenation of craters

craters

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • craters is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

craters synonyms

Meaning a hole or depression in something:

hollow

Meaning a round, deep dish or basin used for food or liquid:

bowl

Meaning a bowl for washing, typically attached to a wall and having taps connected to a water supply; a washbasin:

basin

Meaning a hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated:

pan

Meaning a hollow place in a solid body or surface:

hole

Meaning an empty space within a solid object:

cavity

Meaning a small bag sewn into or on clothing so as to form part of it, used for carrying small articles:

pocket

Meaning a large volcanic crater, especially one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano:

caldera

Meaning a broad, shallow crater, typically filled by a lake, formed by a volcanic eruption with little lava:

maar

Meaning a volcanic crater emitting sulphurous and other gases:

solfatara

Anagrams of craters

carters, tracers

Words that rhyme with craters

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