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geocache

geocache noun: a container hidden in a specific location during geocaching.

geocache: a container hidden in a specific location during geocaching
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Noun

geocache (plural geocaches)

  1. A container hidden in a specific location during geocaching.
    • Regardless of the final name, can we please replace the word "stash" with "cache"? "GPS Cache Hunt" and "Geocache" still sound find. I believe it still works with all of the variations that David came up with (Geocaching, geocacher, etc).[2000 May 30, Matt Stum, “Cache vs. Stash”, in Geocaching, published 2020-11-26, archived from the original on 19 May 2022
    • The treasures in this case are geocaches, those little plastic boxes of goodies that are hidden all over the earth.2006, Michael Purvis, Jeffrey Sambells, Cameron Turner, Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax: From Novice to Professional, page 32

Verb

geocache (third-person singular simple present geocaches, present participle geocaching, simple past and past participle geocached)

  1. (intransitive) To participate in geocaching.
    • Those who have never geocached assume that it must be a really easy game;2004, Mike Dyer, The Essential Guide to Geocaching: Tracking Treasure with Your GPS, page 68
    • And, in line with the third preference that Kahn observed, nearly all of the places I've geocached have been easy to navigate (and would have been easy even without a GPS).2006, Margot Anne Kelley, Local Treasures: Geocaching Across America, page 142
  2. (transitive) To hide or seek a geocache.

Examples of geocache in a sentence

  • With school out for the summer, Jason and Sarah sat down and mapped a strategy to find the geocaches at each of the state's seventy-two parks and recreation areas.2010, Doug Ohman, Chris Niskanen, Prairie, Lake, Forest: Minnesota's State Parks, page 102:
  • The team, which has more than 68000 finds between them, geocached across all 50 U.S. states in just 10 days.2010, Paul Gillin, Dana Gillin, The Joy of Geocaching: How to Find Health, Happiness and Creative Energy Through a Worldwide Treasure Hunt...

Forms of geocache

Noun
pluralgeocaches
Verb
third-person singular presentgeocaches
present participlegeocaching
past participlegeocached
pastgeocached

Origin of geocache

From geo- + cache. Suggested by participants in the mailing list gpsstash@egroups.com in May 2000, replacing the earlier gpsstash (see quotations below).

Words formed from geocache

Questions about geocache

What does geocache mean?
Geocache means a container hidden in a specific location during geocaching.
How do you use geocache in a sentence?
With school out for the summer, Jason and Sarah sat down and mapped a strategy to find the geocaches at each of the state's seventy-two parks and recreation areas.
What part of speech is geocache?
Geocache can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of geocache?
The plural of geocache is geocaches.

Words near geocache in the dictionary

  1. geobotanist
  2. geobotanists
  3. geobotany
  4. geoboundaries
  5. geoboundary
  6. geocache
  7. geocached
  8. geocacher
  9. geocachers
  10. geocaches
  11. geocaching

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: geocache (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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