depth
pronunciation
How to pronounce depth in British English:
UK [depθ]
How to pronounce depth in American English:
US [depθ]
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- Noun:
- extent downward or backward or inward
- degree of psychological or intellectual depth
- (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part
- (usually plural) a low moral state
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
Word Origin
- depth
- depth: [14] Depth is not as old as it looks. Similar nouns, such as length and strength, existed in Old English, but depth, like breadth, is a much later creation. In Old English the nouns denoting ‘quality of being deep’ were dīepe and dēopnes ‘deepness’.=> deep
- depth (n.)
- late 14c., apparently formed in Middle English on model of length, breadth; from Old English deop "deep" (see deep) + -th (2). Replaced older deopnes "deepness." Though the English word is relatively recent, the formation is in Proto-Germanic, *deupitho-, and corresponds to Old Saxon diupitha, Dutch diepte, Old Norse dypð, Gothic diupiþa.
Example
- 1. There is no depth of thinking in that process .
- 2. The depth of our financial ignorance is startling .
- 3. Defense in depth is a good idea .
- 4. This denser water sinks and returns to the south at depth .
- 5. The big lesson for me is the depth and nature of our feelings .