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caldron

caldron is the archaic spelling of cauldron.

Meaning of cauldron

Noun

cauldron (plural cauldrons)

  1. A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.
    • Double, double, toile and trouble; / Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. A type of encirclement.
    • Near-synonym: kettle
    Synonyms:
    kettle
  3. (figuratively) An unsettled or difficult situation or place.
    • Near-synonyms: kettle, pickle; see also Thesaurus:difficult situation

Forms of caldron

pluralcaldrons

Questions about caldron

What is caldron the archaic spelling of?
Caldron is the archaic spelling of cauldron.

Words near caldron in the dictionary

  1. caldine
  2. calditol
  3. Caldmore
  4. caldoceran
  5. Caldonazzo
  6. caldron
  7. caldrons
  8. Caldwell
  9. Caldwell County
  10. Caldwell Parish
  11. Caldwell-Luc

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caldron (page history and authors); cauldron (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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