raven

IPA: rˈeɪvʌn

(countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
A jet-black colour.
Rapine; rapacity.
Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
A surname.
A female given name from English for a girl with raven hair, used since the 1970s.
A male given name
A place name:
A community in Red Deer County, Alberta, Canada, possibly named after the Raven River.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Prairie Township, Edgar County, Illinois.
An unincorporated community in Knott County, Kentucky.
An unincorporated community in Brown County, Nebraska.
A census-designated place in Russell County and Tazewell County, Virginia.
A village in Kardzhali province, Bulgaria.
A village in Gostivar municipality, North Macedonia.

Examples of "raven" in Sentences

Here, the raven is none other than the creator of the world, who teaches people how to live.
Said raven is named Mortimer and stars in a number of books by Joan Aiken (She of Wolves of Willoughby Chase fame).
'Brother,' said Loveleaves, 'this raven is surely hungry; let us give it a little bit, though it is our last cake.'
Then Marian tells how, when the huntsmen cut up the stag, they threw the bone called the raven's bone to one that sat and croaked for it.
The raven is this complete entrepreneur, outside of Noahs agenda, strange and heady, from a myth thousands of years old, predating the Bible.
The reason I raven is because I'm still trying to drop some weight for climbing, and in practical terms that means a lot of going to bed hungry.
The part of the movie where they show Victoria running, and the raven is frozen in midair because she is supposed to be going so fast, I loved it.
And did not I fear for thy sake, I would not let a single sun arise before making his city a ruined heap wherein raven should croak and howlet hoot, and jackal and wolf harbour and loot; nay I had removed its very stones to the back side of Mount Kaf.
'There is a little gristle,' says Tubervile, 'which is upon the spoone of the brisket, which we call the raven's bone; and I have seen in some places a raven so wont and accustomed to it, that she would never fail to croak and cry for it all the time you were in breaking up of the deer, and would not depart till she had it.'