crevice

CEFRC1

/ˈkɹɛvɪs/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A narrow crack or deep opening in rock or another surface.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The vagina.

Examples

  • My phone fell into the crevice between the two seats.

  • We don't have time to search every crevice.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To crack; to flaw.

  2. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

More examples

In context

  • 16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West 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.

  • [T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.

  • A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her white buttocks.

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A small fern grew from a blank in the rock wall near the waterfall.

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Origin

noun

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