ravin

See also: ravin'

English

Alternative forms

• raven, ravine

Etymology

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

• enPR: răvʹən, IPA^(key): /ˈɹævən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ævən

Verb

ravin (third-person singular simple present ravins, present participle ravining, simple past and past participle ravined)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• ravin down

Noun

ravin (uncountable)

1. (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

ravin (comparative more ravin, superlative most ravin)

1. (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

• “ravin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• -navir, Arvin, Narvi, Vanir, invar

French

Etymology

From ravine or raviner, from Old French ravine, from Latin rapīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.vɛ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

ravin m (plural ravins)

1. ravine

Derived terms

• qui fait le malin tombe dans le ravin

Related terms

• ravine
• ravinement
• raviner

Further reading

• “ravin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French ravin.

Noun

ravin

1. ravine

References

• Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Nalik

Noun

ravin (singular a ravin, plural a fu ravin)

1. woman

Further reading

• 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

Noun

ravin c

1. a ravine

   en djup ravin med tvärbranta väggar

   a deep ravine with sheer walls

Declension

Declension of ravin

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ravin	ravins
	definite	ravinen	ravinens
plural	indefinite	raviner	raviners
	definite	ravinerna	ravinernas

References

• ravin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ravin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ravin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)