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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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clough
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English clough, clow, clogh, Old English *cl?h, from Proto-Germanic *klanhaz, *klanh? (“cleft, sluice, abyss”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots cleuch (“gorge; ravine”), Old High German kl?h (in placenames), Old High German klingo, klinga (“brook, cataract, gulf, rapids”). Perhaps conflated or influenced by Old Norse klofi (“a cleft or rift in a hill, ravine”); compare Dutch kloof (“a slit, crevice, chink”). See also cling, clove.
Alternative forms
- cleugh, cleuch (Scotland)
- cleugh (Northumbria)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl?f/, /kla?/
Noun
clough (plural cloughs)
- (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)
- A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- A cliff; a rocky precipice.
- (dialectal) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
- (dialectal) A wood; weald.
Derived terms
- Howden Clough
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Alternative forms
- cloff
Pronunciation
Noun
clough (plural cloughs)
- Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “clough”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- clough in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
clough From the web:
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