Definitions for grabens

grabens gra·ben

Spelling: [grah-buh n]
IPA: /ˈgrɑ bən/

Grabens is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 257 anagrams from letters in grabens (abegnrs).

Definitions for grabens

noun

  1. a portion of the earth's crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has dropped downward in relation to adjacent portions.

Origin of grabens

1895-1900; German: ditch

Examples for grabens

The district, too, was less formidable than the neighborhood of the Karntnerstrasse and the graben.

It is no moat, no graben, that is now being dug, but a grave—a Grab.

Every one seemed as joyous and carefree as on the graben in Vienna on a sunny spring Sunday in times of undisturbed peace.

The depression is probably a “graben” or trough formed by faulting.

Stafforth escorted Wilhelmine to his coach, which waited to convey her to the house in the graben.

Lately up have I them graben, and likewise his tutelar Sphynx have found, and have even to give signs of animation compelled.'

Cannon were in position on the Stephan's Platz and the graben, and the gunners stood ready, as if on parade.

The beautiful “graben” and Horse-market once more excited my admiration.

The dusk of the evening saw Milor in the dress of a porter, pacing the graben with a steady step.

"That old tree with the iron hoop around it, at the corner of the graben," replied her companion.

Word Value for grabens
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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