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Meaning of Ravine | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ɹəˈviːn

Definitions

A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.

Equivalents

Afrikaans kloof
Български дефи́ле про́лом
Català congost gorja
Čeština průrva rokle roklina strž
Dansk slugt
Deutsch Klamm Schlucht Tobel
Esperanto ravino
Español barranco canadá
Français ravin ravine ravine raviné
Gaeilge ailt altan
עברית גיא
हिन्दी खड्ड नाला
Magyar szurdok
Հայերեն ձոր
Bahasa Indonesia jurang
日本語 たにあい 峡谷 渓谷 谷間
ქართული ხევი ხრამი
Kurdî bangîn çal çal jar jar kanyon
Latina convallis
Lingála libela
Македонски клисура
Nederlands kloofdal ravijn
Polski jar jarowy wąwóz
Português barranco ravina
Română râpa ravenă
Slovenčina strž
Svenska ravin
Kiswahili bonde
Türkçe çukur dere kanyon vadi
Українська байрак звір падь уще́лина яр

Examples

“Sometimes the earth stretched up towards them with peaks of mountains, sometimes it fell away in steep ravines, blue rivers sang to them as they passed above them, or very faintly came the song of breezes in lone orchards, and far away the sea sang mighty dirges of old forsaken isles.”
“He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.”
“Thirty feet below her, where the Persians were crashing through the brush, the streambed kinked to the left side of the ravine and ran under an enormous thorn tree with a thick base.”
“And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem’d so fair, […] Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation’s final law— Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek’d against his creed— Who loved, who suffer’d countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal’d within the iron hills?”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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