/dɛpθ/
OriginFrom Middle English depthe, from Old English *dīepþ (“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō (“depth”), equivalent to deep + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots deepth (“depth”), Saterland Frisian Djüpte (“depth”), West Frisian djipte (“depth; abyss, chasm”), Dutch diepte (“depth”), German Low German, Limburgish Deepde (“depth”), Luxembourgish Déift (“depth”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål dybde (“depth”), Faroese dýpd (“depth”), Icelandic djúp, dýpi, dýpt (“depth”), Norwegian Nynorsk djup, djupn, djupt, dypt (“depth”), Swedish djup (“depth”), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰 (diupiþa, “depth”).
- countable, uncountablethe vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
“Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.”
- countable, uncountablethe distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
- countable, figuratively, uncountablethe intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
“The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.”
“The depth of the crisis had been exaggerated.”
“We were impressed by the depth of her knowledge.”
- countable, uncountablelowness
- countable, uncountablethe total palette of available colors
- countable, uncountablethe property of appearing three-dimensional
“The depth of field in this picture is amazing.”
- countable, literary, plural-normally, uncountablethe deepest part (usually of a body of water)
“The burning ship finally sunk into the depths.”
- countable, literary, plural-normally, uncountablea very remote part.
“Into the depths of the jungle...”
“In the depths of the night,”
- countable, uncountablethe most severe part
“in the depth of the crisis”
“in the depths of winter”
- countable, uncountablethe number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
- countable, uncountablea pair of toothed wheels which work together
- countable, uncountablethe perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
- countable, uncountablethe lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
- countable, uncountableA set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
- countable, uncountableAn invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).
Formsdepths(plural)