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# raven

«raven» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very large black bird of the crow family, with a deep…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a raven, ravens); adjective (raven — black and shiny)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A very large black bird of the crow family, with a deep croaking call and a thick beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raven/#m1)

2) adjective (of hair) Shiny black: raven hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raven/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and poems ravens are clever, mysterious birds; in Edgar Allan Poe's poem the raven says «Nevermore». In the Bible ravens fed the prophet Elijah, and Noah sent out a raven from the ark. At the Tower of London, legend says the kingdom will fall if the ravens leave. Phrases: «raven-haired», «as black as a raven».

### examples

- A raven croaked from the top of the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raven/#x1)
- Ravens are among the cleverest birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raven/#x2)
- Legend says six ravens must stay at the Tower of London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raven/#x3)
- In the Bible, ravens brought Elijah bread and meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raven/#x4)
- The princess had long raven hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raven/#x5)
- Noah sent out a raven to look for dry land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raven/#x6)
- But the raven shook his head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raven/#x7)

### note

Countable. Bigger than a crow, with a wedge-shaped tail. Do not confuse with «ravenous» (very hungry) or «ravine» (narrow valley).

### In the corpora

- [Foxes are clever, but crows, ravens and parrots solve puzzles that need several steps; cartoon personalities are made up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right/17/)
- [Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he devoureth the prey, and at even he divideth the spoil.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1626/)
- [every raven after its kinds;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.269/)
- [and every raven after its kinds;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.415/)
- [And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.629/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «raven» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raven/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.