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/

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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, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (transl.), The Seven Against Thebes in 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.

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

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.vɛ̃/

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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.

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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