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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
carven is an adjective meaning "made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary)". It carries one recorded sense.
made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary)
“the carved fretwork”
“an intricately carved door”
“stood as if carven from stone”
literature
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for carven come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.