graben [grah-buh n] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a portion of the earth’s crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has dropped downward in relation to adjacent portions. Liberaldictionary.com
Compare horst. Origin of graben 1895–1900; German: ditchAlso called rift valley. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for graben Contemporary Examples of graben
Trotsky, Stalin, and Hitler were all in Vienna in 1913, so maybe they did pass within 10 feet of each other walking down Graben.
William Boyd on James Bond and His New Novel, Waiting for Sunrise
Lucy Scholes
April 19, 2012
Historical Examples of graben
It is no moat, no Graben, that is now being dug, but a grave—a Grab.
The Faust-Legend and Goethe’s ‘Faust’
H. B. Cotterill
The depression is probably a “Graben” or trough formed by faulting.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6
Various
The beautiful “Graben” and Horse-market once more excited my admiration.
Ida Pfeiffer
Cannon were in position on the Stephan’s Platz and the Graben, and the gunners stood ready, as if on parade.
The Daltons, Volume II (of II)
Charles James Lever
Every one seemed as joyous and carefree as on the Graben in Vienna on a sunny spring Sunday in times of undisturbed peace.
Andreas Latzko
British Dictionary definitions for graben graben noun an elongated trough of land produced by subsidence of the earth’s crust between two faults Word Origin for graben C19: from German, from Old High German graban to dig Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 graben in Science graben [grä′bən] A usually elongated block of rock that is bounded by parallel geologic faults along its two longest sides, and has a lower elevation than the rock at its sides. Grabens form where rock is being pulled apart by tectonic forces. The East African Rift Valley is a graben. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.