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caldera

UK/kælˈdɛə.ɹə/US/kælˈdɛɹ.ə/

caldera noun: a large crater formed by collapse of the cone or edifice of a volcano.

caldera: a large crater formed by collapse of the cone or edifice of a volcano
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Noun

caldera (plural calderas)

  1. A large crater formed by collapse of the cone or edifice of a volcano.
    • The lakes of both Rotorua and Taupo occupy calderas left from enormous prehistoric eruptions, and magma lies at shallow depths beneath a number of centres.2000, Tony Waltham, “Geyser watching”, in Geology Today, volume 16, Iss. 3, p. 99

Proper noun capitalized: Caldera

Caldera

  1. A city, port, and commune in Copiapó province, Atacama region, northern Chile.
  2. A corregimiento in Boquete district, Chiriquí province, Panama.

caldera meaning in Tamil and Arabic

caldera in Tamil

அகன்ற எரிமலைவாய், எரிமலைப் பெருவாய்

caldera in Arabic

geology: a large crater formed by a volcanic explosion
حُفْرَة بُرْكَانِيَّة, فُوَّهَة fuwwaha

Forms of caldera

pluralcalderas

Plural of caldera: calderas

Origin of caldera

Borrowed from Spanish caldera (“cauldron”), from Late Latin caldāria (“warm bath”), from Latin caldārium. Doublet of chowder.

Words formed from caldera

Questions about caldera

What does caldera mean?
Caldera means a large crater formed by collapse of the cone or edifice of a volcano.
What is caldera in Tamil?
Caldera in Tamil is அகன்ற எரிமலைவாய், எரிமலைப் பெருவாய். See Caldera meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is caldera?
Caldera can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce caldera?
Caldera is pronounced /kælˈdɛə.ɹə/ (UK).
What is the plural of caldera?
The plural of caldera is calderas.

Words near caldera in the dictionary

  1. caldendrin
  2. Calder
  3. Calder Grove
  4. Calder Park
  5. Calder Valley
  6. caldera
  7. calderas
  8. Calderbrook
  9. Caldercruix
  10. Calderdale
  11. caldereta

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caldera (page history and authors); Caldera (page history and authors); caldera (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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