Usually means: Large black bird, croaking call.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. raven: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. raven: Merriam-Webster
  3. raven, raven, the Raven: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. raven, raven: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. raven: Collins English Dictionary
  6. raven: Vocabulary.com
  7. Raven, raven: Wordnik
  8. raven: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Raven, raven: Wiktionary
  10. raven: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. raven: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. raven: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Raven, raven, the raven: Dictionary.com
  14. raven: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. raven: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Raven: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. raven: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. raven: Rhymezone
  20. raven: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. raven: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Raven, Raven: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Raven: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. raven: FreeDictionary.org
  25. raven: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. raven: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. raven: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Raven: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Raven (bird), raven: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. RAVEN: Acronym Finder
  4. raven: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Raven: Easton Bible
  2. Raven: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. raven: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Raven, the raven: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ravened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven (Corvus corax).
noun:  A jet-black color.
adjective:  Of the color of the raven; jet-black.
noun:  Rapine; rapacity.
noun:  Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
verb:  (transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
verb:  (transitive) To prey on with rapacity.
verb:  (intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A female given name from English for a girl with raven hair, used since the 1970s.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A community in Red Deer County, Alberta, Canada, possibly named after the Raven River.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Prairie Township, Edgar County, Illinois.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Knott County, Kentucky.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Brown County, Nebraska.
noun:  A census-designated place in Russell County and Tazewell County, Virginia.
noun:  A village in Kardzhali province, Bulgaria.
noun:  A village in Gostivar municipality, North Macedonia.

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