Library / English Dictionary

RAVINE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("ravine" is a kind of...):

vale; valley (a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ravine"):

canon; canyon (a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall)

gorge (a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it))

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 Context examples: 

As he spoke he scrambled down one of the narrow ravines, and, climbing over a low ridge at the further end, he led them into a short valley with a stream purling down the centre of it and a very thick growth of elder and of box upon either side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)