RAVINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ravine mean? 

• RAVINE (noun)
  The noun RAVINE has 1 sense:

1. a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water)

  Familiarity information: RAVINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAVINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("ravine" is a kind of...):

vale; valley (a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ravine"):

canon; canyon (a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall)

gorge (a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it))

 Context examples 

He would leave his bones among these Spanish ravines, or he would do some deed which would call the eyes of men upon him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The weight upon my spirit was sensibly lightened as I plunged yet deeper in the ravine of Arve.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The breeze was from the west: it came over the hills, sweet with scents of heath and rush; the sky was of stainless blue; the stream descending the ravine, swelled with past spring rains, poured along plentiful and clear, catching golden gleams from the sun, and sapphire tints from the firmament.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The two squires hurried across to him, and the three stood looking down into the rocky ravine which lay a hundred and fifty feet beneath them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I passed the bridge of Pélissier, where the ravine, which the river forms, opened before me, and I began to ascend the mountain that overhangs it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

With the early dawn they found themselves in a black ravine, with others sloping away from it on either side, and the bare brown crags rising in long bleak terraces all round them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds—they all gathered round me and bade me be at peace.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Half conscious, but ever with the one thought beating in his mind, he goaded the horse onwards, rushing swiftly down steep ravines over huge boulders, along the edges of black abysses.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The path, as you ascend higher, is intersected by ravines of snow, down which stones continually roll from above; one of them is particularly dangerous, as the slightest sound, such as even speaking in a loud voice, produces a concussion of air sufficient to draw destruction upon the head of the speaker.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Deep and full and strong it thundered down the ravine, the fierce battle-call of a warrior race, the last stern welcome to whoso should join with them in that world-old game where the stake is death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)