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ravines

ravines is the plural of ravine.

Meaning of ravine

Noun

ravine (plural ravines)

  1. 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

Questions about ravines

What is ravines the plural of?
Ravines is the plural of ravine.

Words near ravines in the dictionary

  1. ravined
  2. ravined down
  3. ravinelike
  4. ravinement
  5. ravinements
  6. ravines
  7. ravinest
  8. ravineth
  9. raviney
  10. raving
  11. ravingly

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