river
42 ENTRIES FOUND:
- river (noun)
- Limpopo River (proper noun)
- sell (verb)
- Amazon (proper noun)
- Amur (proper noun)
- Athabasca (proper noun)
- Brahmaputra (proper noun)
- Chang (proper noun)
- Chattahoochee (proper noun)
- Churchill (proper noun)
- Danube (proper noun)
- Darling (proper noun)
- Dnieper (proper noun)
- Don (proper noun)
- Euphrates (proper noun)
- Fraser (proper noun)
- Ganges (proper noun)
- Indus (proper noun)
- Irrawaddy (proper noun)
- Irtysh (proper noun)
- Lena (proper noun)
- Mackenzie (proper noun)
- Mekong (proper noun)
- Negro (proper noun)
- Nile (proper noun)
- Ob (proper noun)
- Orinoco (proper noun)
- Paraná (proper noun)
- Peace (proper noun)
- Pechora (proper noun)
- Platte (proper noun)
- Potomac (proper noun)
- Rhine (proper noun)
- Salween (proper noun)
- Seine (proper noun)
- Snake (proper noun)
- Suwannee (proper noun)
- Thames (proper noun)
- Tigris (proper noun)
- Volga (proper noun)
- Yenisey (proper noun)
- Zambezi (proper noun)
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rivers
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rivers
Britannica Dictionary definition of RIVER
[count]
1
:
a large natural flow of water that crosses an area of land and goes into an ocean, a lake, etc.
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see color picture on this page;
compare stream
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the Mississippi River
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The raft is too small to use on this part of the river.
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They have a house on the river. [=on land next to the river]
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Large boats came up/down the river. [=in the opposite/same direction that the river is flowing]
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the mouth of the river = the river's mouth = the river mouth [=the place where the river enters the ocean]
2
:
a large flow of something
— often + of
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Rivers of mud flowed down the hillside.
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The jet stream is a river of air.
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I cried a river of tears. [=I cried a lot]
sell (someone) down the river
up the river
US, old-fashioned + informal
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to prison
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They sent him up the river for 10 years.
