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5-letter words (1 found)

RAVEN,

4-letter words (11 found)

AVER,EARN,NARE,NAVE,NEAR,RAVE,REAN,VANE,VARE,VENA,VERA,

3-letter words (16 found)

ANE,ARE,AVE,EAN,EAR,ERA,ERN,NAE,NAV,RAN,RAV,REN,REV,VAE,VAN,VAR,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AN,AR,EA,EN,ER,NA,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 38 words from raven according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of raven

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Definitions and meaning of raven

raven

Etymology 1

From Middle English raven, reven, from Old English hræfn, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz (“raven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to croak, crow”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rāʹvən, IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪvən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪvən

Noun

raven (countable and uncountable, plural ravens)

  1. (countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
  2. A jet-black colour.
Derived terms
  • Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)
  • brown-necked raven (Corvus ruficollis)
  • Chatham raven (Corvus moriorum)
  • Chihuahuan raven (Corvus cryptoleucus)
  • common raven (Corvus corax)
  • dwarf raven (Corvus edithae)
  • fan-tailed raven (Corvus rhipidurus)
  • forest raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
  • Icelandic raven
  • little raven (Corvus mellori)
  • night-raven
  • New Zealand raven (Corvus antipodum)
  • northern raven (Corvus corax)
  • pied raven
  • raven-messenger
  • raven paradox
  • relict raven (Corvus tasmanicus boreus)
  • sea raven
  • Somali raven (Corvus edithae)
  • Tasmanian raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
  • thick-billed raven (Corvus crassirostris)
  • western raven (Corvus corax sinuatus)
  • white-necked raven (Corvus albicollis)
Translations

Adjective

raven (not comparable)

  1. Of the color of the raven; jet-black.
    raven curls
    raven darkness
    She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ravene, ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapīna (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).

Alternative forms

  • ravin, ravine

Pronunciation

  • enPR: răvʹən, IPA(key): /ˈɹævən/
  • Rhymes: -ævən

Noun

raven (uncountable)

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

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
  2. (transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
  3. (transitive) To prey on with 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.
  4. (intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).
Related terms
  • ravener
  • ravening
  • ravenous, ravenously, ravenousness

Further reading

  • Corvus corax on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Verna

Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English rave.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈreːvə(n)/

Verb

raven

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈraːvə(n)/
  • Rhymes: -aːvən

Noun

raven

  1. plural of raaf

Anagrams

  • ervan, varen

German

Etymology

From Rave +‎ -en, possibly after English (to) rave.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʁɛɪ̯vn̩/

Verb

raven (weak, third-person singular present ravt, past tense ravte, past participle geravt, auxiliary haben) (or as past participle: geraved)

  1. (colloquial) to rave (to attend a rave)

Conjugation

Related terms

  • Rave
  • Raver

Further reading

  • “raven” in Duden online
  • “raven” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch ravan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn.

Noun

rāven m

  1. raven

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

  • rāvene
  • rāve

Descendants

  • Dutch: raaf
    • Afrikaans: raaf
    • → Sranan Tongo: rafru
  • Limburgish: raof

Further reading

  • “raven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “raven”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orvьnъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ràːʋən/

Adjective

rávən (comparative rávnejši, superlative nȁjrávnejši)

  1. even, level

Inflection

Alternative forms

  • ravȃn (archaic)

Derived terms

  • rávnost

Further reading

  • “raven”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Noun

raven

  1. definite plural of rave

Source: wiktionary.org