eye-pit

noun

The eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye.

OriginMiddle English eye-put →
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Meanings

nouneye-pit (plural eye-pits)

plural eye-pits · alternative eyepit · alternative eye pit · alternative obsolete eie-pit

  1. archaicThe eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye.

    His cheeke-bones raw, and eie-pits hollow grew, / And brawney armes had lost their knowen might […].

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
eyeholeeye socket

Origin

  1. Middle Englisheye-put
  2. Englisheye-pit

From Middle English eye-put, heyeput, eȝe-put, equivalent to eye + pit.

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APA

eye-pit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eye-pit

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“eye-pit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eye-pit. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eye-pit,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eye-pit.

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