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Word: Abyss
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘infernal pit’): via late Latin from Greek abussos ‘bottomless’, from a- ‘without’ + bussos ‘depth’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
əˈbɪs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm
Short Definition:deep chasm
Examples:- a rope led down into the dark abyss
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