"craven" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹeɪ.vən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-craven.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more craven [comparative], most craven [superlative]
Rhymes: -eɪvən Etymology: From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter, or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cravant}} Middle English cravant, {{der|en|fro|cravanté|t=defeated}} Old French cravanté (“defeated”), {{m|fro|cravanter|}} cravanter, {{m|enm|creaunt|t=defeated}} creaunt (“defeated”), {{m|enm|craven|t=to crave}} craven (“to crave”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} craven (comparative more craven, superlative most craven)
  1. Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly. Categories (topical): Fear, People Synonyms: cowardly Derived forms: cry craven Translations (extremely cowardly): страхлив (strahliv) (Bulgarian), lafhartig (Dutch), malkuraĝa (Esperanto), poltrona (Esperanto), pelkurimainen (Finnish), lâche [masculine] (French), feige (German), meata (Irish), мало́душен (malódušen) (Macedonian), пла́шлив (plášliv) (Macedonian), covarde (Portuguese), малоду́шный (malodúšnyj) [masculine] (Russian), Kukavica (Serbo-Croatian), plašljivac (Serbo-Croatian), cobarde (Spanish), feg (Swedish), mesig (Swedish), малоду́шний (malodúšnyj) (Ukrainian), פּחדניש (pakhdonish) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-craven-en-adj-gkPUONtt Disambiguation of Fear: 97 3 0 Disambiguation of People: 100 0 0 Categories (other): English adjectives ending in -en, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English adjectives ending in -en: 68 4 29 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 87 3 10 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 92 2 6 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 88 4 9 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 35 0 1 41 2 11 5 3 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹeɪ.vən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-craven.wav [Southern-England] Forms: cravens [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪvən Etymology: From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter, or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cravant}} Middle English cravant, {{der|en|fro|cravanté|t=defeated}} Old French cravanté (“defeated”), {{m|fro|cravanter|}} cravanter, {{m|enm|creaunt|t=defeated}} creaunt (“defeated”), {{m|enm|craven|t=to crave}} craven (“to crave”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} craven (plural cravens)
  1. A coward. Synonyms: coward Translations (coward): страхливец (strahlivec) (Bulgarian), pelkuri (Finnish), couard [masculine] (French), lâche [masculine] (French), Feigling [masculine] (German), feiger Hund [masculine] (German), heigull [masculine] (Icelandic), raggeit [feminine] (Icelandic), bleyða [feminine] (Icelandic), пла́шливец (plášlivec) [masculine] (Macedonian), стра́шливец (strášlivec) [masculine] (Macedonian), кука́вица (kukávica) [feminine] (Macedonian), covarde [masculine] (Portuguese), gealtaire [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), cobarde [masculine] (Spanish), mes (Swedish), feg stackare (Swedish), korkak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-craven-en-noun-T3Wsec-l

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹeɪ.vən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-craven.wav [Southern-England] Forms: cravens [present, singular, third-person], cravening [participle, present], cravened [participle, past], cravened [past]
Rhymes: -eɪvən Etymology: From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter, or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cravant}} Middle English cravant, {{der|en|fro|cravanté|t=defeated}} Old French cravanté (“defeated”), {{m|fro|cravanter|}} cravanter, {{m|enm|creaunt|t=defeated}} creaunt (“defeated”), {{m|enm|craven|t=to crave}} craven (“to crave”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} craven (third-person singular simple present cravens, present participle cravening, simple past and past participle cravened)
  1. To make craven.
    Sense id: en-craven-en-verb-K0ulFh1z

Adjective [Jamaican Creole]

IPA: /krʲeːvən/, /krʲeːbən/
Etymology: From English craving. Etymology templates: {{der|jam|en|craving}} English craving Head templates: {{head|jam|adjective|head=craven}} craven, {{jam-adj}} craven
  1. gluttonous, greedy Wikipedia link: University of the West Indies Press Synonyms: gravalicious, licky-licky, nyamy-nyamy
    Sense id: en-craven-jam-adj-jpGojCtW Categories (other): Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 35 0 1 41 2 11 5 3 1

Verb [Middle English]

IPA: /ˈkraːvən/
Etymology: From Old English crafian, from Proto-West Germanic *krafōn, modification of Proto-Germanic *krafjaną (“to demand”). Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|crafian}} Old English crafian, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*krafōn}} Proto-West Germanic *krafōn, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*krafjaną|t=to demand}} Proto-Germanic *krafjaną (“to demand”) Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} craven Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|crav}} Forms: weak [table-tags], craven [infinitive], to craven [infinitive], crave [infinitive], crave [first-person, present, singular], craved [first-person, past, singular], cravest [present, second-person, singular], cravedest [past, second-person, singular], craveth [present, singular, third-person], craved [past, singular, third-person], crave [present, singular, subjunctive], craved [past, singular, subjunctive], crave [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], craven [plural, present], crave [plural, present], craveden [past, plural], cravede [past, plural], craveth [imperative, plural, present], crave [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], cravynge [participle, present], cravende [participle, present], craved [participle, past], ycraved [participle, past]
  1. to ask or petition (for something)
    Sense id: en-craven-enm-verb-E7HoLt55
  2. to demand or claim; to ask forcefully
    Sense id: en-craven-enm-verb-VRwZ5LvN Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 35 0 1 41 2 11 5 3 1
  3. to ask or inquire (about something)
    Sense id: en-craven-enm-verb-xSbq1R19
  4. (rare) to want or crave Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-craven-enm-verb-3MBSG2BF
  5. (rare) to charge; to calumniate Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-craven-enm-verb-yXqC20nz
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: crave, cravyn, crawyn, krave

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "args": {
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        "participle",
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      "form": "cravened",
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        {
          "english": "That boy's bloody greedy. Can you believe he ate all the food in my pot?",
          "text": "Da bwoy deh too damn craven. 'Im nuh come nyam off all a di food inna mi pot.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Anancy was walking back home with Cat and said \"Wait a minute, Br'er Cat. How come you were playing so nice with Rat? Why didn't you eat him? Don't you know that Rat tastes great?' That greedy cat replied, 'Is that so, Br'er Anancy?' […]",
          "ref": "2002, Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page, Dictionary of Jamaican English (in English), page 128",
          "text": "“Anancy .. walk home wid Puss an sey 'tap Bra Puss is how you dah play so nice wid Rat an noh eat him yet? Yuh no know sey Rat is nice meat?' Hear puss wid him craven self, 'true Bra Nancy?' […]”",
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          "word": "gravalicious"
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          "word": "licky-licky"
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        {
          "word": "nyamy-nyamy"
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      "wikipedia": [
        "University of the West Indies Press"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/krʲeːvən/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/krʲeːbən/"
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}

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      "form": "cravedest",
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        "present"
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      "form": "craveden",
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        "present"
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    {
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        "past",
        "plural"
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        "present"
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      "form": "cravende",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "craved",
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        "past"
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    {
      "form": "ycraved",
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          "crave"
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        "(rare) to want or crave"
      ],
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        "rare"
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        "to charge; to calumniate"
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        "(rare) to charge; to calumniate"
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      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkraːvən/"
    }
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "crawyn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "krave"
    }
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}
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    "English adjectives ending in -en",
    "English countable nouns",
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      "word": "cry craven"
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      "name": "inh"
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      "form": "more craven",
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        "comparative"
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      "form": "most craven",
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        "superlative"
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Bruce Cumings, The Korean War",
          "text": "Prime Minister Abe's fumbling and craven performance took place on a national holiday in Korea, marking the country wide uprising against the Japanese colonial rule that began on March 1, 1919. March 1 is also the day in 1932 that Japan chose to inaugurate Manchukuo (after seizing northeastern China).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 October 12, Andrew Marantz, quoting Dave Willner, “Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself”, in The New Yorker",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 26, Sam Jones, “Spain elections: Feijóo launches doomed bid to lead country”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "The PP has seized on the possibility of an amnesty to rally support and to portray the PSOE leader as craven, dependent on Catalan separatists and hellbent on remaining in office.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 47",
          "text": "Now, I hold no candle for the train operators, and I think that in the main they have been far too craven about any government proposals. But in this instance, they have been badly traduced, led up the hill, and then chucked back down it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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          "rudiment",
          "rudiment"
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          "cowardly"
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      "ipa": "/ˈkɹeɪ.vən/"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-eɪvən"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "strahliv",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "страхлив"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "lafhartig"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "malkuraĝa"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "poltrona"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "pelkurimainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lâche"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "feige"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "meata"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "malódušen",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "мало́душен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "plášliv",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "пла́шлив"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "covarde"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "malodúšnyj",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "малоду́шный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "Kukavica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "extremely cowardly",
      "word": "plašljivac"
    },
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      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "want",
          "want"
        ],
        [
          "crave",
          "crave"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) to want or crave"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to charge; to calumniate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "charge",
          "charge"
        ],
        [
          "calumniate",
          "calumniate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) to charge; to calumniate"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkraːvən/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "crave"
    },
    {
      "word": "cravyn"
    },
    {
      "word": "crawyn"
    },
    {
      "word": "krave"
    }
  ],
  "word": "craven"
}

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