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# caldera

noun (caldera, calderas)

«caldera» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «caldera» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caldera/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«caldera» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/caldera.html) on Mova free.