ravin
See also: ravin'
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapīna (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ravin (third-person singular simple present ravins, present participle ravining, simple past and past participle ravined)
- (obsolete) To dine or feast upon plunder or goods seized by violence.
- 1908, “The Seven Against Thebes”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 124:
- Now, if ye hear the bruit of death or wounds,
Give not yourselves o'ermuch to shriek and scream,
For Ares ravins upon human flesh.
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Noun edit
ravin (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):
- Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed
Adjective edit
ravin (comparative more ravin, superlative most ravin)
- (obsolete) Ravenous.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 117:
- Better 'twere
I met the ravin lion when he roared
With sharp constraint of hunger;
Further reading edit
- “ravin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From ravine or raviner, from Old French ravine, from Latin rapīna.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ravin m (plural ravins)
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Further reading edit
- “ravin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Haitian Creole edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ravin
References edit
- Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)
Nalik edit
Noun edit
ravin (singular a ravin, plural a fu ravin)
Further reading edit
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
- Craig Alan Volker, The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (1998), page 90
Swedish edit
Noun edit
ravin c
- a ravine
- en djup ravin med tvärbranta väggar
- a deep ravine with sheer walls
Declension edit
Declension of ravin | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ravin | ravinen | raviner | ravinerna |
Genitive | ravins | ravinens | raviners | ravinernas |