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# caldera

«caldera» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large bowl-shaped hollow formed when the top of a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (caldera, calderas)

### meaning for a pupil

A large bowl-shaped hollow formed when the top of a volcano collapses after a huge eruption. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caldera/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons, calderas are shown as giant craters, sometimes filled with lakes, like Crater Lake in the USA or the Yellowstone caldera. Lake Taupō in New Zealand fills a caldera.

### examples

- Yellowstone sits on top of a huge caldera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caldera/#x1)
- The caldera filled with water and became a lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caldera/#x2)
- A caldera forms when a volcano collapses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caldera/#x3)
- Lake Taupō in New Zealand is in a caldera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caldera/#x4)
- Scientists measured the size of the caldera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caldera/#x5)
- The island of Santorini is a broken caldera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caldera/#x6)

### note

Say «kal-DAIR-a». It comes from Spanish, meaning «cauldron». A caldera is much bigger than an ordinary crater.

### In the corpora

- [When a huge eruption empties the magma chamber, the ground above can collapse into a giant crater called a caldera.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «caldera» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caldera/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.