Phrase of the day: Great Depression see depression. depression |diˈpreSHən| noun 1 severe despondency and dejection, typically felt over a period of time and accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy. • Medicine a condition of mental disturbance characterized by such feelings to a greater degree than seems warranted by the external circumstances, typically with lack of energy and difficulty in maintaining concentration or interest in life: clinical depression. • a long and severe recession in an economy or market: the depression in the housing market. • ( the Depression or the Great Depression )the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years. 2 the act of lowering something or pressing something down: the depression of prices. • a sunken place or hollow on a surface: the original shallow depressions were slowly converted to creeks. • Astronomy & Geography the angular distance of an object below the horizon or a horizontal plane. • Meteorology a region of lower atmospheric pressure, esp. a cyclonic weather system. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin depressio(n-), from deprimere ‘press down’ (see depress) .
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