deeps
SayDEEPS/diːps/
- 1Plural of deep.
Whales dive into the ocean deeps to hunt for squid.
The submarine descended slowly into the lightless deeps below the shelf.
Note
A plural that lives mostly in literary and poetic writing, and it usually takes the: the deeps of the sea, the ocean deeps. Where the deep can stand for the sea as a whole, the plural spreads that depth into many dark regions at once. The same form also stretches to the innermost parts of anything, as in the deeps of a forest or of memory.
deeps is a form of deep
deep, noun: The sea or ocean, especially its waters far below the surface; used with the. Full entry
- Forms
- deepdeeps plural
- Spelling
- deep → deeps: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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