Definition of depths in English

Wiktionary

depths (Noun)
Plural of depth.
depths (Noun)
The deepest part.
depths (Noun)
A very remote part.
depths (Noun)
The lowest point, all-time low, nadir.
depths (Noun)
The most severe part.

Part of speech

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depths, noun, plural of depth.

WordNet

Noun Plural: depths
depth - the extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet"
		deepness
		extent the distance or area or volume over which something extends; "the vast extent of the desert"; "an orchard of considerable extent"
		deep exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"
		shallow lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"
		deep exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"
		shallow lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"
		deepness, profundity, profoundness a low pitch that is loud and voluminous
		draught, draft the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
		penetration the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women"
		sounding the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
depth - degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
		degree, level, grade a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree"
		profundity, profoundness intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
depth - (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the depths of space"
		region, part a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"
		plural, plural form the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
depth - (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the depths of addiction"
		abjection, abasement, degradation a low or downcast state; "each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement"- H.L.Menchken
depth - the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense; "the depth of his breathing"; "the depth of his sighs," "the depth of his emotion"
depth - the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
		astuteness, profundity, profoundness, deepness
		sapience, wisdom the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight

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Wiktionary

depth (Noun)
The vertical distance below a surface; the amount that something is deep.
depth (Noun)
The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet.
depth (Noun)
The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, or situation.
depth (Noun)
The total palette of available colors.
depth (Noun)
The property of appearing three-dimensional.
depth (Noun)
The deepest part.
depth (Noun)
A very remote part.
depth (Noun)
The most severe part.
depth (Noun)
The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

depth (n.)
The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.
depth (n.)
Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
depth (n.)
Lowness; as, depth of sound.
depth (n.)
That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.
depth (n.)
The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
depth (n.)
A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

depth
The vertical distance below a surface; the amount that something is deep.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

depth
depth, n. deepness: the measure of deepness down or inwards: a deep place: the sea: the middle, as depth of winter: abstruseness: extent of sagacity and penetration.—adj. Depth′less, having no depth.—Out of one's depth, in water where one cannot touch bottom: in water too deep for one's safety: beyond one's faculties.—The depths, the lowest pitch of humiliation and misery. [Not in A.S.; Skeat makes it Ice. dýpð, from djúpr, deep.]

Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️

depth
of a sail, chute, the extent of any square or oblong sail from the head-rope to the foot-rope; or the length of the after-leech of any boom-sail or stay-sail. See the article SAIL.

Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥

depth
A technical word, peculiarly applicable to bodies of men drawn up in line or column. The depth of a battalion or squadron is the number of men in rank and file from front to rear.