excavation

Nouns

  • (n) the act of digging
    • there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton
    digging, dig,
  • (n) the site of an archeological exploration
    • they set up camp next to the dig
    archeological site, dig,
  • (n) a hole in the ground made by excavating
  • (n) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth mining,

Synonyms

digging dig archeological site mining

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