Dictionary.com
definitions

crevice

[krev-is]
|
SEE MORE SYNONYMS FOR crevice ON THESAURUS.COM

noun

a crack forming an opening; cleft; rift; fissure.

RELATED WORDS

chink, abyss, slit, crevasse, fissure, rift, interstice, cranny, division, opening, chasm, gap, cut, split, fracture, crack, cleft, hole, precipice, rent

Nearby words

  1. creutzfeldt-jakob disease,
  2. crevalle,
  3. crevalle jack,
  4. crevasse,
  5. creve coeur,
  6. crevicular,
  7. crew,
  8. crew chief,
  9. crew cut,
  10. crew neck

Origin of crevice

1300–50; Middle English crevace < Anglo-French, Old French, equivalent to crev(er) to crack (< Latin crepāre) + -ace noun suffix
Related formscrev·iced, adjective
Can be confusedcrevice crevasse
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for crevice

British Dictionary definitions for crevice

crevice

noun

a narrow fissure or crack; split; cleft

Word Origin for crevice

C14: from Old French crevace, from crever to burst, from Latin crepāre to crack
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for crevice

crevice

n.

mid-14c., from Old French crevace (12c., Modern French crevasse) "gap, rift, crack" (also, vulgarly, "the female pudenda"), from Vulgar Latin *crepacia, from Latin crepare "to crack, creak;" meaning shifted from the sound of breaking to the resulting fissure.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Medicine definitions for crevice

crevice

[krĕv′ĭs]

n.

A narrow crack, fissure, or cleft.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.