Associations to the word «Crevasse»

Wiktionary

CREVASSE, noun. (literally) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field; a chasm.
CREVASSE, noun. (figuratively) A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
CREVASSE, verb. (intransitive) To form crevasses.

Dictionary definition

CREVASSE, noun. A deep fissure.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats