deeps

Noun

deep (countable and uncountable, plural deeps)

1. (literary, with-definite-article) The deep part of a lake, sea or ocean.
   • creatures of the deep
2. (with-definite-article) The sea, the ocean.
   • How few! yet how they creep / Through my fingers to the deep, / While I weep—while I weep! / O God! can I not grasp / Them with a tighter clasp?1849 March 31, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850...
3. A deep hole or pit, a water well; an abyss.
   • Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.Psalm 42 verse 7
4. A deep or innermost part of something in general.
   • And what delights can equal those
     ⁠That stir the spirit’s inner deeps,
     ⁠When one that loves but knows not, reaps
     A truth from one that loves and knows?1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 64
5. (literary, with-definite-article) A silent time; quiet isolation.
   • the deep of night
6. (rare) A deep shade of colour.
   • For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]2014, William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 59

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