Crevice Meaning
/ˈkɹɛvɪs/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
nounThe vagina.
Sentence Examples
My phone fell into the crevice between the two seats.
We don't have time to search every crevice.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
A small fern grew from a ____ in the rock wall near the waterfall.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about."
— 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza VI, page 13:
"A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her white buttocks."
— 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
"[…] howling like a wolf as I penetrated her harder and harder as she asked for more and more and moved her legs to the left and to the right so I could go deeper and deeper into her crevice."
— 2018, Michael J. Manley, Still Waters Run Deep, page 130:
"they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Postures and […]crevice the Wall"
— 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
A small fern grew from a ____ in the rock wall near the waterfall.