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a narrow steep-sided valley commonly eroded by running water.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French: torrent, Old French: a violent rushing; see raven2
1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French: torrent, Old French: a violent rushing; see raven2
Related forms
ra·vine·y, adjective
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Ravine
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example Sentences
- The botanists forged through a thicket and crossed a rocky ravine bed.
- Below me snakes a dusty ravine studded with old olive trees.
- There must be an out-of-sight mountain river or ravine pushing or pulling the water.
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Word Origin & History
ravine
1760, "deep gorge," from Fr. ravin "a gully" (1690, from O.Fr. raviner "to hollow out"), and from Fr. ravine "violent rush of water, gully," from O.Fr. ravine "violent rush, robbery, rapine," both ult. from L. rapina (see rapine); sense influenced by L. rapidus "rapid." M.E.
EXPANDravine meant "booty, plunder, robbery" from c.1350-1500. Cf. ravening.
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