raven

1. 1.

   large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail

   SynonymsCorvus corax

   Broadercorvine bird

   Part ofCorvus

Other forms of raven

plural

ravens·

past tense

ravenned·

present participle

ravenning·

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.

Questions about raven

What does raven mean?

raven means "obtain or seize by violence". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in raven?

raven has 2 syllables: ra-ven. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪvən/.

What is another word for raven?

Close synonyms include prey, predate, devour, guttle, pig. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is raven a common word?

raven is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.