Ava vs Rapacious - What's the difference?
ava | rapacious |
. Popular in the 2000s in all English-speaking countries.
* 1881 Mary E. Jackson: The Spy of Osawatomie; or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown , W.S.Bryan 1881, page 57
* 2004 Gayle Brandeis, The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel , HarperCollins, ISBN 0060528044, page 5
A city in Illinois.
A city in Missouri.
A town in New York.
An unincorporated community in Ohio.
English palindromes
Voracious; avaricious.
* 1787 , :
Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
* 1910 , :
Subsisting off live prey.
* 1827 , :
As a verb ava
is to have, to own.As an adjective rapacious is
voracious; avaricious.ava
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory.
- My mother named me Ava because she liked how the English letters looked - the big A a beak pointed upward, the v a sharp slash of wings, the small a round and flat as a parrot's eye.
rapacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious .
- A Prince [...] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.
- Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for [...] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place [...]
