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Definition of Grotto
1. Noun. A small cave (usually with attractive features).
Definition of Grotto
1. n. A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.
Definition of Grotto
1. Noun. A small cave. ¹
2. Noun. An artificial cavern-like retreat. ¹
3. Noun. A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grotto
1. a cave [n -TOES or -TOS] : GROTTOED [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grotto
Literary usage of Grotto
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century by Arthur Edgar Wroth, ., Warwick William Wroth (1896)
"A garden, with a curious grotto and water-works, were probably its only attractions.
It may be conjectured that this English grotto is identical with the ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"means in "grotto style." Classical ornaments so called were found in the 13th
century in ... tells us that near the statue of Diana is a grotto, and if, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The grotto, which is irregular in form, is, in round numbers, 56 feet long, 30
feet wide, and 12 feet high in "its largest dimensions, it is adorned with ..."
4. The Mining Magazine (1857)
"THE grotto OF ADELSBERG. THE celebrated subterranean cavern which bears this ...
The following description of this celebrated subterranean grotto I have ..."
5. Records of the Past by Records of the Past Exploration Society (1903)
"We have already indicated here the results of our discoveries and investigations
at Combarelles and at Font-de-Gaume.* We wish now to describe a new grotto, ..."
6. The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1870)
"The grotto was tricked out in the usual tasteless style observable in all the holy
... They even have in it a grotto wherein twenty thousand children were ..."
7. Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the by William Adolphus Wheeler, Charles Gardner Wheeler (1894)
"[grotto of the Dog.] A celebrated but small cave at the base of a rocky hill ...
Near the top of the east entrance to the grotto is the Roman columbarium, ..."
8. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, Jenny H. Stickney (1898)
"THE WINTER HOUSE IN THE grotto. I EST a change in the weather should come before
we -*—^ expected it, we resumed the work of fitting up our rock-castle. ..."
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