dwarven
- adjective
- /ˈdwɔrvən/
- Literature
- The dwarven warriors were famous for their bravery and skill in battle.
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Examples
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Low-burning lamps lined the walls, though these were fewer now and farther between, and every now and then the companions came to a dwarven work crew, bleeding precious silvery mithril from the tunnel wall.
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Drizzt bent low over one of the dwarven corpses, shaking his head even before he got close enough to fully inspect the wounds.
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More effective was the dwarven response.
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These old fasts are the beating heart of dwarven civilization.
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As a human or dwarven paladin, your character is a follower of the Holy Light.
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Its arms were as thick around as fenceposts, its hands like dwarven hammers.
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"Stealth was never a dwarven strong point," Drizzt remarked dryly.
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Predictably, Regis soon began to complain about his sore feet and quieted only when they heard the sound of dwarven chatter somewhere up ahead.
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Powerful dwarven hands eased great disks onto a wooden beam, one after another, until the whole resembled a solid, cylindrical wheel as tall as a dwarf and nearly as wide.
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None of the dwarven forces had noticed the slender, dark forms—dark elves, Jarlaxle's spies—floating among the stalactites near critical areas of battle, watching the dwarven movements and battle techniques with more than passing interest.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
Small in size with short features like a tiny person
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dwarven comes from dwarf, an old English word for the small, strong people of legends, plus the ending -en that means 'relating to' or 'made of', as in golden or wooden. So dwarven means 'relating to dwarves', for example their cities, tools, or style in fantasy stories.