graven
/ɡɹˈeɪvən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Deep lines were graven on her pale forehead, and on her wan, thin cheeks."
- "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image."
- "I saw I was not only gravened upon the palms of his hands, or set as a seal upon his arm, but I was pourtrayed upon his heart."
- "Whatever it was that had cast a dark shadow and gravened the faces of those normally ebullient people was much too complicated for me to understand."
Etymology
From Middle English graven, igraven, from Old English grafen, ġegrafen, from Proto-Germanic *grabanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig, trench”).