crawl space

1. 1.

   low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing

   Synonymscrawlspace

   Broaderspace

   Part ofbuilding

Questions about crawl space

What does crawl space mean?

crawl space means "low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing".

What is another word for crawl space?

Close synonyms include crawlspace. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crawl space a common word?

crawl space is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.