Meanings
plural crevices
- A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
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.
2 more examples
[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 13A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her white buttocks.
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow - slangThe vagina.
[…] 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
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna long narrow depression in a surface
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latincrepō“to break, burst, crack”
- Old Frenchcrevace
- Middle Englishcrevice
- Englishcrevice
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian пукнатина, цепнатина
- пукнатина (puknatina)narrow crack
- цепнатина (cepnatina)narrow crack
Chinese 缝隙
- 缝隙 (fèngxì)narrow crack
Dutch spleet
- spleetnarrow crack
Esperanto fendaĵo
- fendaĵonarrow crack
Finnish halkeama
- halkeamanarrow crack
French fissure f fente, anfractuosité
- fissure f fentenarrow crack
- anfractuositénarrow crack
German Spalt, Spalte
- Spaltnarrow crack
- Spaltenarrow crack
- Felsspaltnarrow crack
- Felsritzenarrow crack
- Mauerspaltnarrow crack
- Mauerritzenarrow crack
Hebrew סדק, בקיע
- סדק (sédek)narrow crack
- בקיע (bekía)narrow crack
Hungarian hasadék, repedés
- hasadéknarrow crack
- repedésnarrow crack
Irish scáineadh
- scáineadhnarrow crack
Italian fessura, fenditura
- fessuranarrow crack
- fendituranarrow crack
- crepanarrow crack
Japanese 亀裂
- 亀裂 (kiretsu)narrow crack
Latin rīma, crepātūra
- rīmanarrow crack
- crepātūranarrow crack
Persian شکاف, رخنه
- شکاف (šekâf)narrow crack
- رخنه (rexne)narrow crack
Polish szpara, rysa
- szparanarrow crack
- rysanarrow crack
- szczelinanarrow crack
Portuguese fenda, fresta
- fendanarrow crack
- frestanarrow crack
Romanian spărtură, fisură
- spărturănarrow crack
- fisurănarrow crack
Russian тре́щина, расще́лина
- тре́щина (tréščina)narrow crack
- расще́лина (rasščélina)narrow crack
Slovak štrbina, škára
- štrbinanarrow crack
- škáranarrow crack
Spanish hendidura, hendedura
- hendiduranarrow crack
- hendeduranarrow crack
- resquebrajaduranarrow crack
Swedish spricka, klyfta
- sprickanarrow crack
- klyftanarrow crack
- skrevanarrow crack
Tagalog biyak
- biyaknarrow crack
Turkish çatlak, yarık
- çatlaknarrow crack
- yarıknarrow crack
- gediknarrow crack
Cite this entry
crevice. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crevice
“crevice.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crevice. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crevice,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crevice.
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