'Chasm' definitions:
Definition of 'chasm'
(from WordNet)
noun
A deep opening in the earth's surface
Definition of 'Chasm'
From: GCIDE
- Chasm \Chasm\ (k[a^]z'm), n. [L. chasma, Gr. cha`sma, fr. chai`nein to gape, to open wide. See Chaos.]
- 1. A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. [1913 Webster]
- That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men. [1913 Webster]
- Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'chasm'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysm,
- abyss,
- aperture,
- arroyo,
- blank,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- broaching,
- canyon,
- cavity,
- chap,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- clearing,
- cleavage,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- clove,
- col,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crater,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- cut,
- cwm,
- deep,
- defile,
- dell,
- depth,
- dig,
- diggings,
- dike,
- disclosure,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- excavation,
- fault,
- fenestra,
- fissure,
- fistula,
- flaw,
- flume,
- fontanel,
- foramen,
- fracture,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gat,
- gorge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- hollow,
- incision,
- inlet,
- interval,
- joint,
- kloof,
- lacuna,
- laying open,
- leak,
- mine,
- moat,
- notch,
- nullah,
- opening,
- opening up,
- orifice,
- outlet,
- overlook,
- oversight,
- pass,
- passage,
- passageway,
- pit,
- pore,
- preterition,
- quarry,
- ravine,
- rent,
- rift,
- rime,
- rupture,
- scissure,
- seam,
- shaft,
- skip,
- slit,
- slot,
- space,
- split,
- stoma,
- throwing open,
- trench,
- uncorking,
- unstopping,
- valley,
- void,
- wadi,
- well,
- workings,
- yawn,
- yawning abyss