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How to pronounce “cave”

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Pronunciation guide for cave

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of cave with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Eddy Cartaya: My glacier cave discoveries 8 minutes, 3 secondsSo how many of you have ever been in a cave before?
Definition summary: A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

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Eddy Cartaya: My glacier cave discoveries 8 minutes, 3 seconds

So how many of you have ever been in a cave before?

[Noun]
A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
(drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
(mining) A collapse or cave-in.
(figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
(slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
(programming) A code cave.
[Verb]
(figurative) To surrender.
To collapse.
To hollow out or undermine.
To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
(mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
(obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
[Interjection]
(British, school slang) look out!; beware!