Katla

British

noun

an ice-capped volcano in the Mýrdalsjökull glacier in south Iceland. Named after an Icelandic witch, its last major eruption was in 1918. Height: 1512 m (4961 ft)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The 8th century Katla eruption created a 12-year spike in metals like bismuth and thallium in Greenland ice cores.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026

Katla last erupted in 1918, and that eruption lasted almost a month, starving crops of sunlight and killing some livestock.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023

June 17 "Black Summer" Season 2 "The Gift" Season 3 "Hospital Playlist" Season 2 "Katla" "Silver Linings Playbook"

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2021

More than a dozen ice cauldrons formed atop the Katla volcano in Iceland in 1999, Tuffen says, and scientists still are not sure whether they came from an eruption or not.

From Nature • Aug. 28, 2014

Arnkell came to the door and saw where Katla was, and she seemed to be stroking her goat, and disentangling its mane and beard and smoothing its wool.

From The Book of Were-Wolves by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023