graven

graven means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 68 out of 100.

Etymology

* As an English surname, a topographic surname for someone living near a ditch, from Middle Low German grav (“moat, ditch”), from Old Saxon graf, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, the source of grave. * As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse gróf (“depression, hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *grōbō.

name

A surname.

adj

carved, engraved“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.”

verb

To make graven or engraved“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.”
To make or become grave (serious or sombre)“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.”