ravines

Meaning of ravines

plural noun

a deep, narrow gorge with steep sides.

late 18th century: from French, ‘violent rush (of water)’ (see ravin).

Information about ravines

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of ravines is: ravine.
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Hyphenation of ravines

ravines

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • ravines is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

ravines synonyms

Meaning a narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it:

gorge

Meaning a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it, as found in North America:

canyon

Meaning a ravine formed by the action of water:

gully

Meaning an act or instance of moving past or through something:

pass

Meaning damage the purity or appearance of; mar or spoil:

defile

Meaning a steep, narrow gully on a mountainside:

couloir

Meaning a break or hole in an object or between two objects:

gap

Meaning a deep fissure in the earth's surface:

chasm

Meaning a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm:

abyss

Meaning a deep ravine, chasm, or abyss:

gulf

Meaning the backbone of an animal as it appears in a joint of meat:

chine

Meaning a child's term for a rabbit:

bunny

Meaning a steep valley or ravine:

clough, cleuch

Meaning the paired respiratory organ of fish and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx:

gill

Meaning a narrow gorge or ravine:

thrutch

Meaning a steep ravine or precipice:

heugh

Meaning a narrow and steep-sided ravine marking the course of a fast stream:

gulch

Meaning an artificial channel conveying water, typically used for transporting logs or timber:

flume

Meaning a steep-sided gully formed by the action of fast-flowing water in an arid or semi-arid region, found chiefly in the south-western US:

arroyo

Meaning a narrow, winding river gorge:

barranca

Meaning a mountain stream or ravine in South America:

quebrada

Meaning a watercourse, riverbed, or ravine:

nullah

Meaning a deep ravine or chasm:

khud

Meaning a deep gully eroded by rainfall:

sloot

Meaning (in South Africa) a steep-sided, wooded ravine or valley:

kloof

Meaning a dry gully, formed by the eroding action of running water:

donga

Meaning (in Sudan and neighbouring regions) a dry watercourse or ravine:

khor

Anagrams of ravines

inversa, Servian, servian, vansire

Words that rhyme with ravines

Ines, Caines, Gaines, Haines, Novocaines, Raines, Rogaines, Staines, Xylocaines, alycompaines, benzocaines, betaines, chaines, cocaines, daines, darraines, delaines, demaines, demimondaines, douzaines, eucaines, faines, fredaines, germaines, graines, ibogaines, lidocaines, lignocaines, migraines, mondaines, moraines, novocaines, orthocaines, phenacaines, poulaines, procaines, ptomaines, raines, romaines, sdaines, sixaines, stovaines, tetracaines, thebaines, Sabines, albines, bearbines, bines, carabines, carbines

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