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raven

/rey-vuhn/US // ˈreɪ vən //UK // (ˈreɪvən) //

乌鸦,渡鸦,乌鸦嘴,乌鸦的故事

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several large, corvine birds having lustrous, black plumage and a loud, harsh call, especially Corvus corax, of the New and Old Worlds.
    • : the divine culture hero and trickster of the North Pacific Coast Indians.
    • : Astronomy. the constellation Corvus.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lustrous black: raven locks of hair.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inblack
Forms: ravened, ravening, ravens
as inonyx
Forms: ravened, ravening, ravens
as inpitch-black
Forms: ravened, ravening, ravens
as inglut
Forms: ravened, ravening, ravens

Examples

  • Again, at each utterance of the raven’s gloomy prophecy, Philip stuttered.

  • The Baltimore Raven was indefinitely suspended but even one of his teammates suited up after punching a girlfriend in the neck.

  • Berney then went on to say that he considered the former Baltimore Raven to be “a model citizen and a role model.”

  • When the raven-man promises Bran that he will “fly,” does he mean the boy is about to morph into mutant bird as well?

  • And she has introduced them to the raven himself, who now appears to be a bearded old man.

  • But I really just told the best story for Days of Future Past, and Mystique/Raven is a big part of that story.

  • The sunken eyes, the tangled masses of raven hair, the look of exhaustion and hopeless woe.

  • The dwarf who had watched her came back again on his raven followed this time by a crowd of little men.

  • For, singular, uncanny circumstance, this was a one-eyed raven which sat upon the shoulder of his one-eyed master!

  • He could not restrain a shriek as he did so, but he still kept hold of the raven, and made a wild grasp with his disengaged hand.

  • Sin Sin Wa never moved, and the raven, settling down upon the Chinaman's shoulder, closed his serviceable eye.