excavationPronunciation: /ɛkskəˈveɪʃ(ə)n/Translate excavation | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of excavation noun [mass noun] the action of excavating something, especially an archaeological site:the methods of excavation have to be extremely rigorous [count noun] a site that is being or has been excavated: inside the excavation were the bones of some huge creatureexcavation in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of excavation in the US English dictionary
