crevice

See also crevasse

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkɹɛvɪs/

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)

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 (fr) f. 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