ravine
Syllables: rav·ine/ɹəˈviːn//ɹəˈvin/
ravine noun: a deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water. Also the alternative spelling of ravin.
Noun
ravine (plural ravines)
- A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
- Sometimes the earth stretched up towards them with peaks of mountains, sometimes it fell away in steep ravines, blue rivers sang to them as they passed above them, or very faintly came the song of breezes in lone orchards, and far away the sea sang mighty dirges of old forsaken isles.1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 46
- He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
Also used as
ravine is also the alternative spelling of ravin.
ravine is also the obsolete spelling of ravin.
ravine meaning in Nepali, Tagalog, Arabic and Malay
ravine in Nepali
- रेभाइन
ravine in Tagalog
- a deep narrow valley
- kalugay, bangin, galili
ravine in Arabic
- a deep narrow valley
- وَهْدَة wahda
ravine in Malay
- a deep narrow valley
- jurang
Examples of ravine in a sentence
- His remains would have been scattered across thousands of acres of bush and ravine.
- In the north-west of Kuqa County, in a ravine, is the site of the 47 Kizilgaha Caves.
- Since there was no piped water, ghuts (ravines of flowing water) were the laundries of the day.
Forms of ravine
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ravines |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more ravine |
| superlative | most ravine |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ravines |
| present participle | ravining |
| past participle | ravined |
| past | ravined |
Origin of ravine
Borrowed from French ravin (“a gully”), from Old French raviner (“to pillage, sweep down, cascade”), from ravine (“robbery, rapine; violent rush of water, waterfall, avalanche; impetuosity, spirit”), from Latin rapīna (cf. rapine).
See ravin.
Words formed from ravine
Phrases with ravine
Words that rhyme with ravine
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
Questions about ravine
- What does ravine mean?
- Ravine means a deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
- What is ravine in Nepali?
- Ravine in Nepali is रेभाइन. See Ravine meaning in Nepali.
- What part of speech is ravine?
- Ravine is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ravine?
- Ravine is pronounced /ɹəˈviːn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ravine?
- The plural of ravine is ravines.
Words near ravine in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ravine (page history and authors); ravine (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.
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