noun
Meaning 1
A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
crevasse
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noun
Meaning 2
A breach in a canal or river bank.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
Meaning 3
Any cleft or fissure.
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Usage: broadly
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noun
Meaning 4
A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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verb
Meaning 5
To form crevasses.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To fissure with crevasses.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 7
a deep fissure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
History
Etymology
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aragonese: crepaza — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Aragonese: crebaza — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Esperanto: glaĉerfendo — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Finnish: railo — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Finnish: halkeama — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- French: crevasse — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- German: Gletscherspalte — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Indonesian: jurang es — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Indonesian: krevas — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Italian: crepaccio — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Macedonian: кланец (klanec) — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Māori: pokorua — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Norwegian: bre — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Norwegian: isbre — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Portuguese: crevasse — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Romanian: crevasă — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Romanian: crăpătură — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Russian: тре́щина (tréščina) — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- Swedish: isspricka — a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
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