Associations to the word «Ravens»

Pictures for the word «Ravens»

Wiktionary

RAVEN, noun. A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
RAVEN, adjective. Of the color of the raven; jet-black
RAVEN, noun. Rapine; rapacity.
RAVEN, noun. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
RAVEN, verb. (archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
RAVEN, verb. To devour with great eagerness.
RAVEN, verb. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
RAVEN, proper noun. A female given name for a girl with raven hair, used since the 1970s.
RAVEN PARADOX, noun. Hempel's paradox

Dictionary definition

RAVEN, noun. Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail.
RAVEN, verb. Obtain or seize by violence.
RAVEN, verb. Prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs".
RAVEN, verb. Eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches".
RAVEN, verb. Feed greedily; "The lions ravened the bodies".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats