excavation   (Sound)

The noun excavation has 4 senses

• excavation, digging, dig -- (the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton")


• dig, excavation, archeological site -- (the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig")


• excavation -- (a hole in the ground made by excavating)


• mining, excavation -- (the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth)