deep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dēp
ipa: /diːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: deeps
form: deepe
Etymology: From Middle English depe, deep, dep, deop, from Old English dēop (“deep, profound; awful, mysterious; heinous; serious, solemn, earnest; extreme, great”), from Proto-West Germanic *deup, from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (“deep”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-nós, from *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots depe (“deep”), North Frisian diip, jip (“deep”), Saterland Frisian djoop (“deep”), West Frisian djip (“deep”), Alemannic German tüüf (“deep”), Central Franconian deef, deep (“deep”), Dutch diep (“deep”), German tief (“deep”), Luxembourgish déif (“deep”), Mòcheno tiaf (“deep”), Vilamovian tif, tīf, tiif (“deep”), Yiddish טיף (tif, “deep”), Danish dyb (“deep”), Faroese, Icelandic djúpur (“deep”), Norwegian Bokmål djup, dyp (“deep”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish djup (“deep”), Scanian djyber (“deep”), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐍃 (diups, “deep”), Lithuanian dubùs (“deep, hollow”), Albanian det (“sea”), Welsh dwfn (“deep”).
Senses: examples: text: creatures of the deep
glosses: The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
examples: text: 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?
ref: 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, →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: The sea, the ocean.
examples: text: Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
ref: Psalm 42 verse 7
glosses: A deep hole or pit, a water well; an abyss.
examples: text: 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?
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 64:
glosses: A deep or innermost part of something in general.
examples: text: the deep of night
glosses: A silent time; quiet isolation.
examples: text: 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 […]
ref: 2014, William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 59:
glosses: A deep shade of colour.
glosses: The profound part of a problem.
examples: text: Russell is a safe pair of hands in the deep.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position near the boundary.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun deep
word: rapture of the deep
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word: beauty is only skin deep
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word: deap sea
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word: deep background
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word: deep blue sea
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word: deep copy
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word: deep down
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word: deep drawing
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word: deep end
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word: deep fat
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word: deep freezer
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word: deep in the money
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word: deep in thought
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word: deep kiss
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word: deep link
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word: deep out of the money
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word: deep pockets
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word: Deep South
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word: deep space
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word: deep structure
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word: deep supporting fire
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word: deep thinker
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word: Deep Thought
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word: Deep Throat
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word: deep vein thrombosis
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word: DVT
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word: Deep Web
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word: deep well
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word: in too deep
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word: still waters run deep