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crevice

/ˈkɹɛvɪs/

crevice noun: a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

Noun

crevice (plural crevices)

  1. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
    • [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
    • 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. (slang) The 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

Verb

crevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)

  1. To crack; to flaw.
    • they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Postures and […]crevice the Wall1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC

crevice meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

crevice in Tamil

சிறு இடைவெளி, பிளவு, வெடிப்பு, நீளவெடிப்பு

crevice in Urdu

crevice, hole
روزن rauzan

crevice in Bengali

a crevice
দর dor

crevice in Malayalam

crevice
പഴുത് paḻutŭ
More languagesFewer languages
crevice in Kannada
ಬಿರುಕು, ಕೊರಕಲು
crevice in Punjabi
ਦਰਜ਼ daraz
crevice in Tagalog
biyak
crevice in Persian
شکاف šekâf, رخنه rexne

Examples of crevice in a sentence

  • All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.
  • The air sings in passing through a crevice.
  • The New Caledonian crow is known for creating tools from plant material to capture prey hiding in cracks and crevices.

All 23 example sentences with crevice

Forms of crevice

Noun
pluralcrevices
Verb
third-person singular presentcrevices
present participlecrevicing
past participlecreviced
pastcreviced

Plural of crevice: crevices

Origin of crevice

From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.

Words formed from crevice

Phrases with crevice

Questions about crevice

What does crevice mean?
Crevice means a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
What is crevice in Tamil?
Crevice in Tamil is சிறு இடைவெளி, பிளவு, வெடிப்பு. See Crevice meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is crevice?
Crevice can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce crevice?
Crevice is pronounced /ˈkɹɛvɪs/ (UK).
What is the plural of crevice?
The plural of crevice is crevices.

Words near crevice in the dictionary

  1. Crevelings
  2. crevet
  3. crevets
  4. crevette
  5. crevettes
  6. crevice
  7. crevice skink
  8. crevice skinks
  9. creviced
  10. creviceless
  11. crevices

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crevice (page history and authors); crevice (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); روزن (Urdu) (page history and authors); দর (Bengali) (page history and authors); പഴുത് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); crevice (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਦਰਜ਼ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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