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Ravennese

Ravennese adjective: ravennate; of Ravenna.

Adjective

Ravennese (comparative more Ravennese, superlative most Ravennese)

  1. Ravennate; of Ravenna.
    • Consider Raphael's Donna Velata, the Ravennese mosaic of Justinian and His Court, and Picasso's still-life The Pigeon.1930, Helen Knight, “Sense-form in pictorial art”, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Noun

Ravennese pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The natives or inhabitants of Ravenna in Italy.
    • ...the Ravennese had found a fresh field for their activity on the eastern side of the Adriatic.1903, Reginald Bloomfield, Art. IV., “Byzantium or Ravenna?”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 197, number 394, page 417

Forms of Ravennese

comparativemore Ravennese
superlativemost Ravennese

Origin of Ravennese

Either Ravenna + -ese or an anglicized form of Latin Ravennātēnsis.

Questions about Ravennese

What does Ravennese mean?
Ravennese means ravennate; of Ravenna.
What part of speech is Ravennese?
Ravennese can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Ravennese in the dictionary

  1. ravennagrass
  2. Ravennan
  3. Ravennans
  4. Ravennate
  5. Ravennates
  6. Ravennese
  7. ravenness
  8. ravenous
  9. ravenously
  10. ravenousness
  11. ravenries

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