grotto

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈɡɹɒt.əʊ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɡɹɑ.toʊ/

Noun

grotto (plural grottos)

1. A small cave.
2. An artificial cavern-like retreat.
3. A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
4. A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
   • 1987, National Speleological Society, NSS News, vol. 45-46, p.331:

     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.

5. (Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.

Translations

• French: grotte
• German: Grotte
• Italian: grotta, caverna, santuario
• Portuguese: gruta
• Russian: грот
• Spanish: gruta

Translations

• French: grotte
• German: Grotte
• Portuguese: gruta
• Spanish: gruta

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