excavation
pronunciation
How to pronounce excavation in British English:
UK [ˌekskəˈveɪʃn]
How to pronounce excavation in American English:
US [ˌekskəˈveɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- a hole in the ground made by excavating
- the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
Word Origin
- excavation (n.)
- 1610s, "action of excavating," from Latin excavationem (nominative excavatio) "a hollowing out," noun of action from past participle stem of excavare "to hollow out" (see excavate). Meaning "an excavated place" is from 1779.
Example
- 1. But further excavation efforts failed in 1970 , 1971 , 1974 and 1979 .
- 2. Archaeologists said further excavation was impossible because the destruction was so bad .
- 3. On october 18th , therefore , 19 robots competed in the regolith excavation challenge .
- 4. Excavation was under way on a new trench , on the other side of a low limestone ridge .
- 5. An excavation of a bronze-age city in south-eastern iran turned up a pair of dice dating back nearly 5000 years .