Crevice

English

Noun

Crevice (plural Crevices)

1. A narrow crack or fissure, in a rock or wall.

   I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and [...] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy. (William Butler Yeats)

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Adjectives

barren; rock; narrow; winding; snug; sunken; distant; mysterious.

Thesaurus

abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, incision, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadi

Etymology

From Middle English crevice < Old French crevace < crever (“to break, burst”) < Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkɹɛvɪs/

Translations

narrow crack in rock

Bulgarian: пукнатина (bg) f., цепнатина (bg) f. Croatian: pukotina (hr) f. Dutch: spleet (nl) Esperanto: fendaĵo (eo) Finnish: halkeama (fi) French: fissure, fente (fr) f.

German: Spalt (de) m., Spalte (de) f. Polish: szpara f., rysa f., szczelina f. Portuguese: fenda (pt) f., fresta (pt) f. Romanian: spǎrturǎ (ro) f., fisurǎ (ro) f. Russian: трещина (ru) f., расщелина (ru) f.

External links

• Crevice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Crevice in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Crevice at OneLook Dictionary Search