Precipice

Definition: Precipice

Precipice

Noun

1. A very steep cliff.

Date "precipice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To dream of standing over a yawning precipice, portends the threatenings of misfortunes and calamities. To fall over a precipice, denotes that you will be engulfed in disaster. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Geography	Very steeply inclined, vertical or overhanging wall or surface of rock. Source: European Union. (references)
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Danger	At stake, in question; precarious, critical, ticklish; slippery, slippy; hanging by a thread; Verb: with a halter round one's neck; between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires; on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano; in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire; not out of the wood.
Pitfall	Precipice; maelstrom, volcano; ambush; pitfall, trapdoor; trap; (snare).
Verticality	Wall, precipice, cliff.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Precipice

Specialty definitions using "precipice": Carbuncle of Ward Hill ♦ Gray Man's Path ♦ Migron ♦ Passelourdin. (references)

Etymologies containing "precipice": Precipitous. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared or even noticed. (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) I could fall into a precipice. (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oederkerk) Once again I teeter at the precipice of the generation gap. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)
Lyrics	But I'm gaining pounds at the precipice of Too Late (Too Little Too Late; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)
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Domain	Title
Books	Dust on a Precipice (reference) Precipice (reference) Precipice - Out of the Abyss (reference) The Precipice (reference) (more book examples)
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	Ferro-Carril de Vera-Cruz a Mexico--In the Maltrata Mountains--Tunnel upon the infernal precipice / A. Briquet, fot. Credit: Library of Congress.		On the brink of a tremendous precipice, Grand View Trail, Grand Canyon, Ariz., U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	A few minutes separated Jean Valjean from that awful precipice which was opening before him for the third time.
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"Precipice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.33% of the time. "Precipice" is used about 75 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.33%	73	39,105
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.33%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	1.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	75	N/A

Expression using "precipice": on the edge of a precipice. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "precipice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		afgrond (abyss, chasm, gulf). (various references)

Albanian		theqafje (abrupt place), humnerë (abyss, chasm, gulf), hon (abysm, abyss, gully), greminë (abyss, bathos, deep). (various references)

Arabic		‏جرف (cliff, curette, drag, dragging, drift, escarpment, palisade, plow, rake, shovel, sweep, sweep away, sweeping, transport, undercut bank, wash), ‏شفا الكارثة, ‏شفا الهوة. (various references)

Bulgarian		урва (steep), бездна (abysm, abyss, chasm, depths, gap, gulf, the deep), пропаст (abyss, bathos, chasm). (various references)

Chinese		懸崖 , 峭壁 (cliff, steep), 崿 (cliff), 崖 . (various references)

Czech		prudký svah, sráz (bluff, cliff, escarpment, rapidity, slope). (various references)

Danish		afgrund (abyss, chasm, gulf). (various references)

Dutch		afgrond (abyss, chasm, gulf, jaws, maw). (various references)

Esperanto		profundegaĵo (abyss, gulf), krutaĵo. (various references)

Faeroese		hamar (hammer), berg, avgrund (abyss, chasm, gulf). (various references)

Farsi		پرتگاه (Bluff, Crag, Headland), سراشیبی تند, صخره پرتگاه . (various references)

Finnish		jyrkänne (bluff). (various references)

French		précipice, gouffre, abîme, � -pic. (various references)

Frisian		djipte (abyss, chasm, depth, gulf), ôfgrûn (abyss, chasm, gulf). (various references)

German		Abgrund (abysm, abyss, chasm, fovea, gulf). (various references)

Greek		γκρεμός (cliff). (various references)

Hebrew		פי ת�"ום, צוק תלול. (various references)

Hungarian		szakadék (abyss, beetling height, chasm, cleft, cove, deep, dell, drop-off, escarpment, gap, gourd, gulch, gulf, pit, ravine, scarp), mélység (abyss, chasm, deep, deepness, depth, depths, drop-off, gulf, profound, profoundness, profundity, the deep). (various references)

Icelandic		hyldýpi (abyss, chasm, gulf), gjá (abyss, chasm, gulf). (various references)

Italian		abisso (abysm, abyss, chasm, deep, depth, fovea, gulf, pit), precipizio (cliff, ravine), burrone (abyss, Canyon, chasm, gorge, gulch, gulf, gully, ravine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		険阻 (steep), 絶壁 (cliff), 嶮岨 (steep). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぜっぺき (cliff, neighbor with just a wall between), け�"そ (economical and simple, steep). (various references)

Manx		thoagh, marroo-lhieggey (perpendicular fall), eaynin (cliff, daisy; escarpment). (various references)

Papiamen		precipicio (abyss, chasm, gulf), abismo (abyss, chasm, gulf). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecipicepray

Portuguese		precipício (abyss, chasm, gulf, linn), abismo (abysm, abyss, chasm, deep, depths, gulf, pit, yawn). (various references)

Romanian		prãpastie (abysm, abyss, chaos, chasm, depth, disaster, gulf, hollow, ravine, scar, steep), stâncã (block, cliff, crag, rock, rocklet, shelf, tor), râpã (cliff, ravine, steep), abis (abysm, abyss, chasm, gulf, hell, ravine, the bottomless pit). (various references)

Russian		бездна (abysm, abyss, chasm, deep, gulf), безд, пропасть (abysm, abyss, be gone, be lost, chasm, deep, disappear, go to the bad, gulf, wall of partition). (various references)

Scottish		bearradh (edge of precipice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		propast (bane, calamity, downfall, failure, perdition, ruin, ruination, smash, wrack, wreck), litica (cliff, crag, drop, scaur), bezdan (abyss, bottomless, chasm, deep, infinite, profound). (various references)

Spanish		precipicio (abyss, chasm, cliff, drop, gulf), despeñadero (abyss, chasm, gulf), abismo (abysm, abyss, chasm, cleft, coulee, couloir, crevice, deepness, gulf, hell, pit, Slough, steep). (various references)

Swedish		stup (cliff, scarp, steep), brant (abrupt, arduous, edge, escarpment, precipitous, scarp, sharp, sheer, steep, steeply, uphill, verge), bråddjup (precipitous). (various references)

Turkish		yar (cliff, love, scarp), uçurum (abysm, abyss, bluff, chasm, cliff, crag, gap, gulf, scarp, steep), sarp kayalık (cliff, steep). (various references)

Ukrainian		крутояр, обрив, безодня (abysm, abyss, chasm, deep, depth, profundity, yawn). (various references)

Welsh		dibyn (steep), clogwyn (bluff, cliff, crag), clog (cloak, rock). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	abruptum, abyssus, arduum, crater, fauces, praeceps, precipitium. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "precipice": precipices. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Precipice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: percipi, percipic, precepice, precifice, precipeice, precipicea, precipicle, precipics, precipie, precipioce, precipire, precipise, precitice, presipice. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "precipice" (pronounced pre"supus)
3	-p u s	campus, compass, corpus, encompass, eohippus, gyrocompass, hospice, Lupus, multipurpose, Opus, pompous, porpoise, purpose, tapas.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-i-i-p-p-r"
	-2 letters: epeiric, precipe.
	-3 letters: picric, piecer, pierce, pipier, recipe.
	-4 letters: cerci, ceric, creep, crepe, cripe, icier, piece, piper, price, recce.
	-5 letters: cepe, cere, cire, epic, peep, peer, peri, perp, pice, pier, pipe, pree, prep, repp, rice, ripe.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-i-i-p-p-r"
	+1 letter: precipices.
	+2 letters: percipience.
	+3 letters: percipiences, precipitance.
	+4 letters: impercipience, precipitances.
	+5 letters: impercipiences, perspicacities, precipitancies.
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