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Definition crater
Etymology 1
First coined 1613, from Latin cr?t?r (“basin”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kr?t?r, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).
Noun
crater (plural craters)
- (astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. [from 1831]
- (geology) The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. [from 1610s]
- (informal) The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb. [from 1839]
- (informal, by extension) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
- (historical) Alternative spelling of krater (“vessel for mixing water and wine”)
Verb
crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)
- To form craters in a surface (of a planet or moon)
- To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
- (snowboarding) To crash or fall.
Etymology 2
Possibly a diminutive of cratur (dialect form of creature).
Noun
crater (plural craters)
- (Ireland, informal, Britain, dialectal) A term of endearment, a dote, a wretched thing.
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