crevasse
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crevasse
- /kɹəˈvæs/
Rhymes with -æs
Where it comes from
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
noun crevasses
- A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
- A breach in a canal or river bank.
- Any cleft or fissure. I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers.
- A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome. […] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled.
verb crevasses · crevassing · crevassed
- To form crevasses.
- To fissure with crevasses.
Translations
Talk about this word "crevasse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/crevasse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. crevasse. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/crevasse "crevasse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/crevasse.Cite this
@misc{crevasse_2026,
title = {crevasse},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crevasse},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
