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ravine
English
Etymology 1
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 rap?na (cf. rapine).
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?-v?n?, IPA(key): /???vi?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Noun
ravine (plural ravines)
- A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
Derived terms
- ravine-buck
- ravined
- ravine-deer
Related terms
- ravinement
Translations
See also
- canyon
- gorge
- gulley, gully
- valley
Etymology 2
From Middle English ravene, ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rap?na (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æv?n/
Noun
ravine (plural ravines)
- (archaic) Alternative form of raven (“rapine, rapacity; prey, plunder”)
- 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.:
- And he, shall he,
Man, her last work, who seem’d so fair, […]
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation’s final law—
Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek’d against his creed—
Who loved, who suffer’d countless ills,
Who battled for the True, the Just,
Be blown about the desert dust,
Or seal’d within the iron hills?
- And he, shall he,
- 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.:
Further reading
- ravine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- ravines on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- ravine at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Averni, Erivan, naiver, naïver, vainer
French
Etymology
From the Old French verb raviner (“flow with force; sweep down; pillage, cascade”), or from the noun ravine, raveine (“robbery, rapine; violent rush of water, waterfall, avalanche; impetuosity, spirit”), from Latin rap?na. Doublet of rapine, a borrowing from the same Latin term.
Pronunciation
- Homophones: ravinent, ravines
Noun
ravine f (plural ravines)
- A small ravine or gully.
- Beginning of a furrowing or formation of a ravine.
Related terms
- ravin
- raviner
- ravinement
Verb
ravine
- first-person singular present indicative of raviner
- third-person singular present indicative of raviner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of raviner
- third-person singular present subjunctive of raviner
- second-person singular imperative of raviner
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French ravine, from Latin rap?na.
Noun
ravine m (definite singular ravinen, indefinite plural raviner, definite plural ravinene)
- gully (type of ravine)
References
- “ravine” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “ravine” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From French ravine, from Latin rap?na.
Noun
ravine m (definite singular ravinen, indefinite plural ravinar, definite plural ravinane)
- gully (type of ravine)
References
- “ravine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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brook
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: br??k, IPA(key): /b??k/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /b?u?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English br?can (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan? (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to enjoy”). German brauchen is cognate.
Verb
brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)
- (transitive, formal) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).
- 1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing ?ISBN, page 104
- After delivering the reply he ordered the annalists, who have charge of the knots, to take note of it and include it in their tradition. By now the Spaniards, who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
- 1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing ?ISBN, page 104
- (transitive, obsolete) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III scene ii[2]:
- […] How brooks your grace the air, / After your late tossing on the breaking seas?
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III scene ii[2]:
- (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
Synonyms
- (use): apply, employ, utilize
- (earn): See also Thesaurus:deserve
- (tolerate): See also Thesaurus:tolerate
Derived terms
- abrook
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English brook, from Old English br?c (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kaz (“stream”).
Noun
brook (plural brooks)
- A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
- The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
- (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
- (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- Holcombe Brook
- Rea Brook
- Stamford Brook
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English bro(o)ken (“to use, enjoy, digest”), from Old English br?can (“to use, enjoy”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan?. See also brouk.
Verb
tae brook
- To enjoy; to possess; to have use or owndom of.
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