CRAVEN meaning: Yielding easily to fear, cowardly

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word CRAVEN:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

craven: Merriam-Webster
craven: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
craven: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
craven: Collins English Dictionary
craven: Vocabulary.com
Craven, craven: Wordnik
craven: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Craven, craven: Wiktionary
craven: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
craven: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
craven: Infoplease Dictionary
Craven, craven: Dictionary.com
craven: Online Etymology Dictionary
Craven (disambiguation), Craven (surname), Craven: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Craven: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
craven: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
craven: Rhymezone
Craven: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
craven: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
craven: FreeDictionary.org
craven: Mnemonic Dictionary
craven: TheFreeDictionary.com
craven: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Craven (district), craven: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Arms and Armour (No longer online)
craven: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

craven: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
craven: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
Craven, the craven: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Craven)

▸ adjective:  Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A coward.
▸ verb:  (archaic) To make craven.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A local government district in North Yorkshire, England.
▸ noun:  A village in the Rural Municipality of Longlaketon No. 219, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Opposite:

brave, courageous, fearless, valiant, heroic

Phrases:

Craven Arms, cry craven, wes craven, Craven Cottage, John Craven, more...

Adjectives:

skipton, young, old, poor, most, late, beautiful, gallant, foul, arrant, dear

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beige, taupe, ash gray, pale yellow, olive drab, more...

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