cravens
Meaning of cravens
plural noun
a cowardly person.
Middle English cravant ‘defeated’, perhaps via Anglo-Norman French from Old French cravante, past participle of cravanter ‘crush, overwhelm’, based on Latin crepare ‘burst’. The change in the ending in the 17th century was due to association with past participles ending in -en (see -en3).
Information about cravens
- It is a name.
- The singular form of cravens is: craven.
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Hyphenation of cravens
cravens
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- cravens is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of cravens
Words that rhyme with cravens
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