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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a deep fissure

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Old French crevace Date: 1813 1. a breach in a levee 2. a deep crevice or fissure (as in a glacier or the earth)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a deep open crack, esp. in a glacier. 2 US a breach in a river levee. Etymology: F f. OF crevace: see CREVICE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crevasse Cre`vasse" (kr?`v?s"), n. [F. See Crevice.] 1. A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided. 2. A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. [U.S.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(crevasses) A crevasse is a large, deep crack in thick ice or rock. He fell down a crevasse. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. [Fr.] Crevice, gap, opening, break, rent, chasm.

Moby Thesaurus

abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, crevice, cut, cwm, deep, defile, dell, depth, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, hollow, incision, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, pit, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, shaft, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadi, well, yawning abyss