cavity

Etymology
Mid 16th century borrowing from or, from.

Noun

 * 1) A hole or hollow depression in a solid object.
 * 2)  A hollow area within the body.
 * 3)   The female part of a mold: the depression itself or (metonymically) the half of the mold that contains it.
 * 4)  A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.
 * 1)   The female part of a mold: the depression itself or (metonymically) the half of the mold that contains it.
 * 2)  A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.
 * 1)  A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:hole

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: соҡор
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Egyptian:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , Aushöhlung,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κοίλωμα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latgalian: dūbs
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dobums
 * Manx: towl
 * Maori: pakohu, arearenga
 * Plautdietsch: Hollinj
 * Polish: wydrążenie,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans: holte, liggaamsholte
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡыуыш
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: νηδύς
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: cuas, cuasán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: cavea
 * Latvian: dobums
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: kevil
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian: кариес
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kario
 * Finnish: hammasreikä,, ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: βρῶμα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, foglyuk
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᐅᓂᖅ
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kapampangan: busbus ipan
 * Korean: 충치(蟲齒)
 * Lao:
 * Malay: kaviti
 * Malayalam:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai: ฟันผุ


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: