Definitions for Raven

Raven ra·ven

Spelling: [rey-vuh n]
IPA: /ˈreɪ vən/

Raven is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in Raven (aenrv).

Definitions for Raven

noun

  1. any of several large, corvine birds having lustrous, black plumage and a loud, harsh call, especially Corvus corax, of the New and Old Worlds.
  2. the divine culture hero and trickster of the North Pacific Coast Indians.
  3. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Corvus.
  4. rapine; robbery.
  5. plunder or prey.
  6. a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.

adjective

  1. lustrous black:

verb (used with object)

  1. to seize as spoil or prey.
  2. to devour voraciously.

verb (used without object)

  1. to seek plunder or prey.
  2. to eat or feed voraciously or greedily:
  3. to have a ravenous appetite.

Origin of Raven

before 900; Middle English; Old English hrǣfn; cognate with German Rabe, Old Norse hrafn

Examples for Raven

If there's any wickedness going on, that raven's in it, I'll be sworn.'

raven (Season 2) She had this one black dress toward the end of the season that was long.

“raven is 27-years-old, which means her parents are probably in their early fifties,” says the actress.

The raven, wolf, and eagle are the regular epic accompaniments of battle and carnage.

The tresses of this lady were shining and black, like the plumage of the raven.

And in one tree sat a raven, beating his wings and cawing loudly.

But the raven flew off and returned with a letter for the judge.

And she has introduced them to the raven himself, who now appears to be a bearded old man.

There is both a raven and a dove in the movie, and in that order—perfectly biblical.

And the person who created the most crisis for Charles in First Class, and the person he cared the most about, was raven.

Word Value for Raven
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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