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Word: raven (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Of the color of the raven; jet-black

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Noun:

  • A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus ''Corvus'', especially the common raven, ''Corvus corax''.
  • Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
  • Rapine; rapacity.

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Proper noun:

  • female|from=English for a girl with raven hair, used since the 1970s.

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Verb:

  • (archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
  • To devour with great eagerness.
  • To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

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