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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ra•ven1 /ˈreɪvən/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Birdsa very large bird having shiny black feathers and coloring and a loud, harsh call.
adj. - shining black:raven hair.
ra•ven•like, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ra•ven1 (rā′vən),USA pronunciation n. - Birdsany of several large, corvine birds having lustrous, black plumage and a loud, harsh call, esp. Corvus corax, of the New and Old Worlds.
- the divine culture hero and trickster of the North Pacific Coast Indians.
- (cap.) [Astron.]the constellation Corvus.
adj. - lustrous black:raven locks of hair.
- bef. 900; Middle English; Old English hrǣfn; cognate with German Rabe, Old Norse hrafn
- to seek plunder or prey.
- to eat or feed voraciously or greedily:to raven like an animal.
- to have a ravenous appetite.
v.t. - to seize as spoil or prey.
- to devour voraciously.
n. - rapine;
robbery. - plunder or prey.
Also, ravin. - Latin rapīna rapine
- Middle French raviner, ultimately
- earlier ravine 1485–95
- Literaturea lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
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