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# cauldron

«cauldron» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very large, deep metal pot for cooking over a fire…** — 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 (a cauldron, cauldrons); US also caldron

### meaning for a pupil

1) A very large, deep metal pot for cooking over a fire, often shown in stories with witches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cauldron/#m1)

2) A place or situation full of violent feelings or wild activity («a cauldron of noise»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cauldron/#m2)

3) (sport) The large bowl in which the Olympic flame burns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cauldron/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and fairy tales witches stir a bubbling cauldron of potion. In history lessons people cooked in cauldrons over open fires. In news and sport it describes a stadium full of noise or a tense situation. The Olympic cauldron is lit at the opening ceremony. It tells the reader about bubbling, heat or wild excitement.

### examples

- The witch stirred her bubbling cauldron. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cauldron/#x1)
- In Viking times, families cooked stew in an iron cauldron. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cauldron/#x2)
- The Olympic cauldron was lit by a young athlete. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cauldron/#x3)
- The stadium was a cauldron of noise when the goal went in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cauldron/#x4)
- Steam rose from the cauldron over the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cauldron/#x5)
- In Macbeth, three witches chant around a cauldron. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cauldron/#x6)
- The classroom was a cauldron of excitement before the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cauldron/#x7)
- Then the witch placed her cauldron on the fire, to prepare the magic draught. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cauldron/#x8)

### note

Countable: a cauldron, cauldrons. Say «KORL-drun». The US also writes «caldron». Witches with cauldrons are from stories and folk tales, not real life.

### In the corpora

- [Pour vinegar onto a heap of baking soda and it froths up like a witch's cauldron.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/18-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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