Usually means: Digging out earth for exploration.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word excavation:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. excavation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. excavation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. excavation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. excavation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. excavation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Excavation, excavation: Wordnik
  7. excavation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. excavation: Wiktionary
  9. excavation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. excavation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. excavation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. excavation: Dictionary.com
  13. excavation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Excavation (Ben Monder album), Excavation (The Haxan Cloak album), Excavation (archaeology), Excavation (archeology), Excavation (medicine), Excavation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Excavation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. excavation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. excavation: Rhymezone
  18. Excavation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. excavation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. excavation: Free Dictionary
  21. excavation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. excavation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. excavation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excavation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Excavation: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. excavation: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Excavation: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See excavational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
noun:  Especially, the trade of digging engineered holes for building foundations, roadbed preparations, and similar purposes.
noun:  (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
noun:  (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
noun:  (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
noun:  (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
noun:  (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
noun:  (countable) Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.
noun:  (figurative) The act of discovering and exposing or developing (a quality).

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