Word.ws English Dictionary

Ravenscar

Ravenscar proper noun: a coastal village in Staintondale parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district, renamed from Peak in the early 20th century (OS grid ref NZ9801). Also the acronym of Reliable Ada Verifiable Executive Needed for Scheduling Critical Applications in Real Time.

Proper noun

Ravenscar

  1. A coastal village in Staintondale parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district, renamed from Peak in the early 20th century (OS grid ref NZ9801).

Also used as

Ravenscar is also the acronym of Reliable Ada Verifiable Executive Needed for Scheduling Critical Applications in Real Time.

Origin of Ravenscar

Recorded as Rauenesere 1312, from Old Norse hrafn + sker, so Peak must have been a later renaming. The computing term was derived from the name of the village, the location of the 8th International Real-Time Ada Workshop (IRTAW 8).

Questions about Ravenscar

What does Ravenscar mean?
Ravenscar means a coastal village in Staintondale parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district, renamed from Peak in the early 20th century (OS grid ref NZ9801).
What part of speech is Ravenscar?
Ravenscar is a proper noun.

Words near Ravenscar in the dictionary

  1. ravenousness
  2. ravenries
  3. ravenry
  4. ravens
  5. Ravensbourne
  6. Ravenscar
  7. Ravenscourt Park
  8. Ravenscraft
  9. Ravenscrafts
  10. Ravenscraig
  11. Ravenscroft

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Ravenscar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Ravenscar.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ravenscar. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.