excavation

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

ex·cav·ation [excavation excavations] BrE [ˌekskəˈveɪʃn] NAmE [ˌekskəˈveɪʃn] noun
1. countable, uncountable the activity of digging in the ground to look for old buildings or objects that have been buried for a long time
2. countable, usually plural a place where people are digging to look for old buildings or objects
•The excavations are open to the public.
3. uncountable the act of digging, especially with a machine

Word Origin:
early 17th cent.: from French, or from Latin excavatio(n-), from excavare ‘hollow out’, from ex- ‘out’ cavare ‘make or become hollow’ (from cavus ‘hollow’).

Example Bank:
•Further archaeological excavations are now being carried out.
•Further excavations at the site are now being carried out.
•More discoveries were made as the excavation proceeded.
•The excavations took place between 1925 and 1939.
•recent excavations of underground burial chambers

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  mining, dig, archeological site, digging