Origin: 1600-1700 Latin bowl for mixing things, crater, from Greek krater, from kerannynai to mix
1 a round hole in the ground made by something that has fallen on it or exploded on it: craters on the Moon’s surface bomb craters2earth science the round open top of a volcano [Origin: 1600–1700 Latin bowl for mixing things, crater, from Greek krater, from kerannynai to mix]