Abysm

Definition: Abysm

Abysm

Noun

1. A bottomless gulf or pit.

Date "abysm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references)

Etymology: Abysm \A*bysm"\, noun. [Old French expression abisme; French abime, Late Latin expression abyssimus, superl. of Latin abyssus. See Abyss.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Abysm

Synonym: abyss (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interval	Gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow; abra; barranca, barranco; clove, gulch, notch; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus; parenthesis; (interjacence); void c. (absence); incompleteness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Abysm

Specialty definitions using "abysm": Aphorism. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
The Tempest	William Shakespeare	Prospero: What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Abysm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abysm" is used about 5 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)	100%	5	157,705

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 "abysm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		hon (abyss, gully, precipice). (various references)

Bulgarian		бездна (abyss, chasm, depths, gap, gulf, precipice, the deep). (various references)

Czech		propast (abyss, chasm, divide, gulf, yawn). (various references)

French		précipice (abyss). (various references)

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

Hungarian		föld mélye, õskáosz. (various references)

Italian		abisso (abyss, chasm, deep, depth, fovea, gulf, pit, precipice). (various references)

Pig Latin		abysmay.(various references)

Portuguese		abismo (abyss, chasm, deep, depths, gulf, pit, precipice, yawn), garganta (ball spunt, canyon, Col, defile, dingle, fauces, gap, gate, glabrous, gorge, groove, gulch, gullet, neck, pass, ravine, saddle, slot, swallow, throat, throttle, upfold, whistle). (various references)

Romanian		abis (abyss, chasm, gulf, hell, precipice, ravine, the bottomless pit), prãpastie (abyss, chaos, chasm, depth, disaster, gulf, hollow, precipice, ravine, scar, steep). (various references)

Russian		бездна (abyss, chasm, deep, gulf, precipice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prvobitni haos (abyss). (various references)

Spanish		abismo (abyss, chasm, cleft, coulee, couloir, crevice, deepness, gulf, hell, pit, precipice, Slough, steep), garganta (affluent reach, ball spunt, Coomb, gorge, groove, gulch, gullet, neck, ravine, throat). (various references)

Turkish		uçurum (abyss, bluff, chasm, cliff, crag, gap, gulf, precipice, scarp, steep), sonsuz derinlik, boşluk (abyss, antrum, backlash, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, voidness). (various references)

Ukranian		безодня (abyss, chasm, deep, depth, precipice, profundity, yawn), пучина (abyss, gulf, profound), прірва (abyss, barathrum, gulf). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "abysm": abysmal, abysmally, abysms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Abysm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abbys, abim, absym, abyes, abyis, abys, abyse, abysma, ayam, Zbys. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-m-s-y"
	-1 letter: abys, bams, bays, mays, yams.
	-2 letters: abs, aby, ays, bam, bas, bay, bys, mas, may, sab, say, yam.
	-3 letters: ab, am, as, ay, ba, by, ma, my, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-m-s-y"
	+1 letter: abysms, embays, maybes.
	+2 letters: abysmal, bayamos, bynames, cymbals, embassy, maybush, tymbals.
	+3 letters: amboynas, assembly, boyarism, eyebeams, goombays, myoblast, sunbeamy.
	+4 letters: abysmally, assumably, beamishly, blasphemy, boyarisms, carbamyls, chambrays, cymbalers, cymbalist, cymbaloms, estimably, maccaboys, maccoboys, mangabeys, maybushes, mealybugs, megabytes, miserably, moneybags, myoblasts, semblably, subfamily.
	+5 letters: amblyopias, ambrotypes, amebocytes, bigamously, bipyramids, cymbalists, dithyrambs, embayments, hybridomas, impassably, impassibly, jambalayas, measurably, metastably, molybdates, myeloblast, myrobalans, presumably, reassembly, sybaritism, symbolical.
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