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English
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
Verb
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.
Derived terms
Noun
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
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 117:Better 'twere
I met the ravin lion when he roared
With sharp constraint of hunger;
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From ravine or raviner, from Old French ravine, from Latin rapīna.
Pronunciation
Noun
ravin m (plural ravins)
- ravine
Derived terms
Further reading
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French ravin.
Noun
ravin
- ravine
References
- Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)
Nalik
Noun
ravin (singular a ravin, plural a fu ravin)
- 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
Etymology
From French ravine, from Latin rapīna.
Noun
ravin c
- a ravine
en djup ravin med tvärbranta väggar- a deep ravine with sheer walls
Declension
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