Ravin

Pronunciation

• enPR: răvʹən, IPA: /ˈrævÉ™n/
• Rhymes: -ævÉ™n

Alternative forms

• ravine

Origin

From Old French raviner ("rush, seize by force"), itself from ravine ("rapine"), from Latin rapina ("plundering, loot"), itself from rapere ("seize, plunder, abduct")

Full definition of ravin

Noun

1. (obsolete) food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven
• 1850, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, :Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
  With ravine, shriek'd against his creed

Adjective

1. (obsolete) ravenous
• 1598, William Shakespeare, , III. ii. 117:Better 'twere
  I met the ravin lion when he roared
  With sharp constraint of hunger;