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grot

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A picturesque grotto, small cave, or rocky cavern; a favorite setting in Romantic and pastoral verse for secluded contemplation.

Detailed Definition
This shortened form is a literary or archaic variant of “grotto.” Keats uses it to create a fairy-tale setting that feels enclosed, secret, and strange.
Example
Example in poetry:
Keats’s “She took me to her Elfin grot” makes a grot a small, enchanted cave or grotto; “The sea carved a salt-dark grot beneath the cliff” gives the noun physical clarity; Shelley’s and Keats’s Romantic landscapes often turn caves into visionary interiors; A contemporary fantasy poem may place “a child’s lantern in the grot”
Additional Notes
The word “grot” is a shortened, old literary form that many modern readers may not know.; Found in the poem, La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats
Also Known As
cavern den lair grotto
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