RAVEN - Meaning and Pronunciation

How to pronounce raven?
     
This video provides examples of American English pronunciations of raven by male and female speakers.
In addition, it explains the meaning of raven through a dictionary definition and several visual examples.

IPA Transcription of raven is /rˈeɪvən/.

Definition of raven according to Wiktionary:
raven can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a name

As a noun raven can mean:
1. Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
2. A jet-black colour.
3. Rapine; rapacity.
4. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

As an adjective raven can mean:
Of the color of the raven; jet-black.
As a verb raven can mean:
1. To obtain or seize by violence.
2. To devour with great eagerness.
3. To prey on with rapacity.
4. To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).

As a name raven can mean:
1. Surname.
2. Given name for a girl with raven hair, used since the 1970s.
3. Given name.



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