Usually means: Small cave used as retreat.
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  1. grotto: Merriam-Webster
  2. grotto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grotto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grotto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grotto: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grotto, grotto: Wordnik
  7. grotto: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grotto: Wiktionary
  9. grotto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grotto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grotto: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grotto, grotto: Dictionary.com
  13. grotto: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. grotto: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Grotto (National Speleological Society), Grotto (Satanism), Grotto (comics), Grotto (disambiguation), Grotto, The Grotto (album), The Grotto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Grotto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. grotto: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. grotto: Rhymezone
  19. Grotto: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. grotto: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Grotto: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. grotto: FreeDictionary.org
  23. grotto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. grotto: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. grotto: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. grotto: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grotto: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Grotto: Urban Dictionary

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  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

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  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grotto)

noun:  A small cave.
noun:  An artificial cavern-like retreat.
noun:  A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
noun:  A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
noun:  (Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.
noun:  (Philippines) A garden or roadside shrine with a small cave containing a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary (usually Our Lady of Lourdes and sometimes paired with a water feature)

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