Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
raven . - noun A raging flood.
- noun A long deep hollow worn by a stream or torrent of water; hence, any deep narrow gorge, as in a mountain; a gully.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A torrent of water.
- noun A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A deep narrow
valley orgorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His casual remark to Dr. Werner, and to the landscape, as Grushnitsky's corpse topples into a ravine is a masterpiece of the laconic: "Finita la commedia!"
A Doomed Young Man 2005
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His casual remark to Dr. Werner, and to the landscape, as Grushnitsky's corpse topples into a ravine is a masterpiece of the laconic: "Finita la commedia!"
A Doomed Young Man 2005
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But instead of going to his horse, he followed what she called the ravine—really a trickle of muddy water that flowed past the shack and down toward another gully between the rock formations … in which, Reilly saw after only a little climbing, there sat a lean-to made of sticks, peat, and rock.
LADY of SKYE PATRICIA CABOT 2001
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Then he went to what he called the ravine, still avoiding the path, so that as a matter of fact he made his way up on his hands and knees mostly, very carefully and slowly amongst the loose stones, till by holding on to a bush he brought his eyes on a level with the piece of flat ground in front of the farmhouse.
The Rover 1923
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The 'ravine' is within mortar range of the flak bunker at Oakcrest *.
West Lynn Avenue 2008
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Designed at the early stages of the cold war by a team of Nazi engineers, the ravine is really an anti-tank ditch, designed as a place of death for the expected American invaders.
West Lynn Avenue 2008
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After tracking in the frost awhile, I sat downwind and across a ravine from a doe and two fawns.
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The chopper crashed into a mountain ravine on Tuesday, apparently after being hit by rebel fire.
KIA KIA/BNR 2006
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This lonely ravine is called Far Easedale, and at the upper end there formerly stood a cottage named Blentarn Ghyll.
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The bed of this immense ravine is at this day called the Charsoo, a
kalli commented on the word ravine
Leslie Ann Levine was born into a dry ravine.
October 29, 2007