raven

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.2 Noun 1.1.2.1 Translations 1.1.3 Adjective 1.1.3.1 Derived terms 1.1.3.2 Translations 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Pronunciation 1.2.2 Noun 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.2.3 Verb 1.2.3.1 Related terms 1.3 See also 1.4 References 1.5 Anagrams 2 Dutch 2.1 Verb 2.2 Noun 3 Slovene 3.1 Adjective

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[edit] Etymology 1

Old English hræfn, Old Norse hrafn

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: rāʹvən, IPA: /ˈreɪvən/, SAMPA: /"reIv@n/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -eɪvən

[edit] Noun

raven (plural ravens)

1. A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.

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raven (not comparable)

1. Of the color of the raven; jet-black

   raven curls

   raven darkness

   She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.

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• raven-black
• raven-haired
• raven standard

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[edit] Etymology 2

From medieval French raviner 'rush, seize by force', itself from ravine 'rapine', from Latin rapina 'plundering, loot', itself from rapere 'seize, plunder, abduct'

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• enPR: răvʹən, IPA: /ˈrævən/, SAMPA: /"r{v@n/
• Rhymes: -ævən

[edit] Noun

raven (plural ravens)

1. Rapine; rapacity.
2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

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[edit] Verb

to raven (third-person singular simple present ravens, present participle ravening, simple past and past participle ravened)

1. (archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
2. To devour with great eagerness.
3. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

   The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent

[edit] Related terms

• ravener
• ravening
• ravenous, ravenously, ravenousness

[edit] See also

Appendix:Collective nouns

[edit] References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• “raven” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001 [1]

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of aenrv
• Verna

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[edit] Verb

raven (weak verb)

1. to (hold a) rave, to party wildly

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raven

1. Plural form of raaf.

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[edit] Slovene

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raven

1. even