Usually means: Yielding easily to fear, cowardly.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word craven:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. craven: Merriam-Webster
  2. craven: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. craven: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. craven: Collins English Dictionary
  5. craven: Vocabulary.com
  6. Craven, craven: Wordnik
  7. craven: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Craven, craven: Wiktionary
  9. craven: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. craven: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. craven: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Craven, craven: Dictionary.com
  13. craven: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Craven (disambiguation), Craven (surname), Craven: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Craven: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. craven: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. craven: Rhymezone
  18. Craven: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. craven: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. craven: FreeDictionary.org
  21. craven: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. craven: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. craven: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Craven (district), craven: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. craven: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. craven: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. craven: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Craven, the craven: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cravening as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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