fathoms
Meaning of fathoms
noun
- Grasp, envelopment, control.
- (now usually nautical) An English unit of length for water depth notionally based upon the width of grown man's outstretched arms but standardized as 6 feet (about 1.8 m).
- Various similar units in other systems.
- Depth of insight, mental reach or scope.
- To encircle with outstretched arms, especially to take a measurement; to embrace.
- To measure the depth of, take a sounding of.
- To get to the bottom of; to manage to comprehend; understand (a problem etc.).
I can't for the life of me fathom what this means.
Information about fathoms
- The singular form of fathoms is: fathom.
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Hyphenation of fathoms
fath-oms
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- fathoms is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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