volcano
noun countable
/vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/
Word Forms
| singular | volcano |
| plural | volcanoes or volcanos |
By Boaworm (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 License], via Wikimedia Commons
- 1a mountain that forces hot gas, rocks, ash, and lava (=melted rock) into the air through a hole at the top. Some volcanoes are not immediately dangerous because they are not active and have become dormant. Others will never be dangerous again because they are completely extinct
The volcano last erupted over fifty years ago.
Synonyms and related wordsVolcanosactivecraterdormant
volcano
noun countable
/vɑlˈkeɪnoʊ/
Word Forms
| singular | volcano |
| plural | volcanoes or volcanos |
By Boaworm (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 License], via Wikimedia Commons
- 1a mountain that forces hot gas, rocks, ash, and lava (=melted rock) into the air through a hole at the top. Some volcanoes are not immediately dangerous because they are not active and have become dormant. Others will never be dangerous again because they are completely extinct
The volcano last erupted over fifty years ago.
Synonyms and related wordsVolcanosactivecraterdormant
- full-on
- full on the mouth/chin etc
- full on the mouth/chin etc.
- full-page
- full professor
- full-scale
- full-size
- full-stack
- full steam ahead
- full stop
- full-term
- full-throated
- full-time
- full-time mom
- full-time mother
- full-timer
- full to the gunwales
- fully
- fully-fledged
- fully-grown
- fulminant
- fulminate
- fulsome
- fumacious
- fumble