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ravine¹
- /ɹəˈviːn/ UK
- /ɹəˈvin/ US
Rhymes with -iːn
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French ravin (“a gully”), from Old French raviner (“to pillage, sweep down, cascade”), from ravine (“robbery, rapine; violent rush of water, waterfall, avalanche; impetuosity, spirit”), from Latin rapīna (cf. rapine).
noun ravines
- A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water. Sometimes the earth stretched up towards them with peaks of mountains, sometimes it fell away in steep ravines, blue rivers sang to them as they passed above them, or very faintly came the song of breezes in lone orchards, and far away the sea sang mighty dirges of old forsaken isles.
ravine²
- /ˈɹæv(ɪ)n/ UK
- /ˈɹæv(ə)n/ US
Rhymes with -ævɪn, -ævən
Where it comes from
See ravin.
noun ravines
- Alternative spelling of ravin And sure since we were borne, / Ruine of one ravine, was there none gretter: […]
adjective more ravine · most ravine
- Obsolete spelling of ravin […] I am the cauſe / His death vvas ſo effected: Better 'tvvere / I met the rauine Lyon vvhen he roar'd / VVith ſharpe conſtraint of hunger: better 'tvvere, / That all the miſeries vvhich nature ovves / VVere mine at once.
verb ravines · ravining · ravined
- Alternative spelling of ravin As God was able to ſaue the bodies of his ſeruantes, that they were not hurt in the fire, as he was able to keepe Ionas ſafe, in the whales bellie: ſo can he preſerue our bodies in the earth. Yea, much better, becauſe the fire naturally conſumeth, and the fiſhes bellie deſtroieth thoſe things which
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: arroyo, valley, gully, wadi, cliff, corridor, hallway, gorge, draw, gulch, hour, side, infanticide, hand, reclamation, aisle
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noun a deep narrow valley
| Español | barranco, cañada |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 협곡 hyeopgok, 산골짜기 san'goljjagi, 골짜기 goljjagi |
| 日本語 | 渓谷 keikoku, 峡谷 kyōkoku |
| 中文 | 山溝 /山沟 shāngōu |
| Kiswahili | bonde |
| Português | ravina, barranco |
| Français | ravin |
| Deutsch | Schlucht, Klamm |
| Italiano | canalone, burrone, gola, calanco, forra, gravina |
| Ελληνικά | φαράγγι farángi, ρεματιά rematiá, λαγκάδι lagkádi |
| Română | ravenă, râpă |
| Русский | овра́г ovrág, лощи́на loščína, уще́лье uščélʹje, ложби́на ložbína, промо́ина promóina, буера́к bujerák |
| العربية | وَهْدَة wahda |
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