CARVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carven mean? 

• CARVEN (adjective)
  The adjective CARVEN has 1 sense:

1. made for or formed by carving ('carven' is archaic or literary)

  Familiarity information: CARVEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARVEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made for or formed by carving ('carven' is archaic or literary)

Synonyms:

carved; carven

Context example:

stood as if carven from stone

Similar:

engraved; etched; graven; incised; inscribed (cut or impressed into a surface)

graven; sculpted; sculptured (cut into a desired shape)

lapidarian (inscribed on stone)

sliced ((used of meat) cut into pieces for serving)

Domain category:

literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value)

 Context examples 

For every statue, cut gem, shrine, carven screen, or what else might please the eye of a learned clerk, there are a good hundred to our one.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)