depth

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
2. (countable, uncountable) the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
4. (countable, uncountable) lowness
5. (countable, uncountable) the total palette of available colors
6. (countable, uncountable) the property of appearing three-dimensional
7. (countable, literary, plural-normally, uncountable) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
8. (countable, literary, plural-normally, uncountable) a very remote part.
9. (countable, uncountable) the most severe part
10. (countable, uncountable) the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
11. (countable, uncountable) a pair of toothed wheels which work together
12. (countable, uncountable) the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
13. (countable, uncountable) the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
14. (countable, uncountable) A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
15. (countable, uncountable) An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).

Synonyms

profundity

deepness

profoundness

abyss

bottom

length

intensity

height

the deep

depths

deep place

lowness

astuteness

gulf

size

abstruseness

shade

sounding

soundness

strength

substance

throat

valley

wisdom

D

DP

far end

deep level

innermost part

market depth

distance measured by a rope

inside measurement

hill-and-dale

back

🔙

degree of depth

abysm

background

baseness

concentration

deep

extent

fullness

growth

insight

meanness

penetration

pool

pungency

richness

sagacity

Translations

profondeur

Tiefe

profondità

profundidad

diepte

βάθος

profundidade

profunditat

عمق

fondo

profundeza

altum

kolk

hondura

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɛpθ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: depthe

Inherited from Old English: *dīepþ

Cognate with Scots: deepth

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Djüpte

Cognate with Western Frisian: djipte

Cognate with Dutch: diepte

Cognate with Low German: Deepde

Cognate with Danish: dybde

Cognate with Icelandic: dýpt

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰

In summary

From 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”).