# river
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English ryver, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria (“littoral, riverbank”), from Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Unrelated to Latin rīvus (“stream”) (whence rival, derive). Doublet of riviera and rivière. Displaced native Old English ēa.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹɪvə/
* (General American) enPR: rĭv'ər, IPA: /ˈɹɪvɚ/
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* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: riv‧er

#### Noun

river (plural rivers)
* A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:river
    Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
** 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.
** 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
* Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
    a river of blood
* (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
** 2017, Nathan Schwiethale, Ace High: Mastering Low Stakes Poker Cash Games, page 70:He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river.
* (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

##### Usage notes

* As with the names of lakes and mountains, the names of rivers are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term: the River Thames or the Yangtze River. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives see river added to the end, as with the Yellow River. It is less common to add river before names than it is with lakes, but many of the rivers of Britain are written that way, as with the River Severn; indeed, British English tends to use "River X" in such cases while American, South African, Australian and New Zealand English use "X River". The former derives from the earlier but now uncommon form river of ~: the 19th century River of Jordan is now usually simply the River Jordan.
* It is common to preface the proper names of rivers with the article the.
* Concerning the reference of its coordinate terms, some people say: you can step over a brook, jump over a creek, wade across a stream, and swim across a river.

##### Derived terms

* Amazon river dolphin
* American River
* Apple River
* Arm River
* atmospheric river
* Bear River
* Blue River
* braided river
* Chang River
* Chicamacomico River
* Chinese river dolphin
* Columbia River
* Crimea river
* cross-river
* cross the river
* cry someone a river
* Crystal River
* Deep River
* denial is not a river in Egypt
* Detroit River
* downriver
* Eagle River
* Elk River
* Fall River
* French River
* from the river to the sea
* Fryingpan River
* Garden River
* Gila River
* Green River
* Gunnison River
* Hay River
* heritage river
* Hood River
* Huai River, Huai river
* Hutt River
* Indian River
* inverted river delta
* Japanese river fever
* Kansas River
* Klip River
* lazy river
* Lesser Slave River
* Lister's river snail
* Little Colorado River
* Little River
* Long River
* lost river
* Lost River sucker
* Mad River
* Maurice River
* Middle River
* midriver
* Mississippi River
* Mooi River
* Moose River
* Mora River
* multiriver
* myrtle of the river
* Northern Rivers
* over the river
* over the river and through the woods
* palaeoriver
* paleoriver
* pass the river
* Peace River
* Pearl River
* pink river dolphin
* Powder River
* Puerco River
* red river hog
* riverage
* riverbank
* river basin
* riverbed
* riverbend
* river birch
* river blindness
* riverboard
* riverboarder
* riverboarding
* riverboat
* river bottom
* river boulder
* river bug
* river bugging
* river-bush
* rivercane
* river carp
* river chicken
* river chub
* river crab
* rivercraft
* Riverdale
* riverdamsel
* riverdance
* river dog
* river dolphin
* River Don
* river-dragon
* river duck (Anatinae)
* river dune
* riveret
* riverfront
* riverful
* river god
* rivergoing
* river gum
* Riverhead
* riverhemp
* river hog (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
* riverhood
* river horse
* riverine
* riverish
* river jack
* riverkeeper
* river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis)
* riverless
* riverlet
* riverlike
* river limpet (Ancylus fluviatilis)
* riverling
* riverman
* river mouth
* river mussel (Unionidae)
* river oats
* river otter
* riverpark
* river pear (Grias cauliflora)
* riverplain
* river poison
* riverport
* river prawn (Macrobrachium spp.)
* river pumpkin
* river rat
* river red gum
* river run
* river runner
* river running
* riverscape
* river shad (Alosa chrysochloris, Gudusia spp.)
* river shark
* riverside
* river snail (Viviparidae)
* river swallow
* river turtle
* river valley
* riverwalk
* river walk
* river warbler
* riverward
* riverwards
* river water
* riverwater
* riverway
* riverweed
* riverwise
* riverwoman
* riverworthy
* rivery
* Roaring Fork River
* run-of-the-river
* Rush River
* Russian River
* Sables-Spanish Rivers
* Saint Lawrence River
* salmon river, Salmon River
* Salt River
* sell down the river
* Sendai River
* Smoky River
* soldier river barb
* St. Johns River
* St. Marys River
* submarine river
* Swan River
* Three Rivers
* tidal river
* Touws River
* Two Hearted River
* Two Rivers
* upriver
* up the river
* Victoria River
* White River
* wild river
* Yampa River
* Yellow river
* Yellow River
* you can't step in the same river twice
* youthful river
* Zuni River
* English terms starting with “river”

##### Descendants

* → Finnish: river (“river (in poker)”)
* Sranan Tongo: liba

##### See also

* fluvial
* tributary (noun)
* Category:Rivers

#### Verb

river (third-person singular simple present rivers, present participle rivering, simple past and past participle rivered)
* (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
    Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.

### Etymology 2

From rive +‎ -er.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹaɪvə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɹaɪvɚ/
* Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

#### Noun

river (plural rivers)
* One who rives or splits.

### References

* ↑ Definitions of rivers, stream, brooks, creeks and other terms (Goran Šafarek, WorldRivers.net, November 29, 2018)

### Further reading

* river on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “river”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Danish
### Noun

river c
* indefinite plural of rive

### Verb

river
* present of rive

## Finnish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English river.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈriʋer/, [ˈriʋe̞r]
* Rhymes: -iʋer
* Hyphenation: ri‧ver

### Noun

river
* (poker) river (fifth communal card in Texas hold'em)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of river (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
riverini
riverini
accusative
nom.
riverini
riverini
gen.
riverini
genitive
riverini
riverieni rivereideni rivereitteni
partitive
riveriäni
rivereitäni riverejäni
inessive
riverissäni
rivereissäni
elative
riveristäni
rivereistäni
illative
riveriini
rivereihini
adessive
riverilläni
rivereilläni
ablative
riveriltäni
rivereiltäni
allative
riverilleni
rivereilleni
essive
riverinäni
rivereinäni
translative
riverikseni
rivereikseni
abessive
riverittäni
rivereittäni
instructive
comitative
—rivereineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
riverisi
riverisi
accusative
nom.
riverisi
riverisi
gen.
riverisi
genitive
riverisi
riveriesi rivereidesi rivereittesi
partitive
riveriäsi
rivereitäsi riverejäsi
inessive
riverissäsi
rivereissäsi
elative
riveristäsi
rivereistäsi
illative
riveriisi
rivereihisi
adessive
riverilläsi
rivereilläsi
ablative
riveriltäsi
rivereiltäsi
allative
riverillesi
rivereillesi
essive
riverinäsi
rivereinäsi
translative
riveriksesi
rivereiksesi
abessive
riverittäsi
rivereittäsi
instructive
comitative
—rivereinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
riverimme
riverimme
accusative
nom.
riverimme
riverimme
gen.
riverimme
genitive
riverimme
riveriemme rivereidemme rivereittemme
partitive
riveriämme
rivereitämme riverejämme
inessive
riverissämme
rivereissämme
elative
riveristämme
rivereistämme
illative
riveriimme
rivereihimme
adessive
riverillämme
rivereillämme
ablative
riveriltämme
rivereiltämme
allative
riverillemme
rivereillemme
essive
riverinämme
rivereinämme
translative
riveriksemme
rivereiksemme
abessive
riverittämme
rivereittämme
instructive
comitative
—rivereinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
riverinne
riverinne
accusative
nom.
riverinne
riverinne
gen.
riverinne
genitive
riverinne
riverienne rivereidenne rivereittenne
partitive
riveriänne
rivereitänne riverejänne
inessive
riverissänne
rivereissänne
elative
riveristänne
rivereistänne
illative
riveriinne
rivereihinne
adessive
riverillänne
rivereillänne
ablative
riveriltänne
rivereiltänne
allative
riverillenne
rivereillenne
essive
riverinänne
rivereinänne
translative
riveriksenne
rivereiksenne
abessive
riverittänne
rivereittänne
instructive
comitative
—rivereinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
riverinsä
riverinsä
accusative
nom.
riverinsä
riverinsä
gen.
riverinsä
genitive
riverinsä
riveriensä rivereidensä rivereittensä
partitive
riveriään riveriänsä
rivereitään riverejään rivereitänsä riverejänsä
inessive
riverissään riverissänsä
rivereissään rivereissänsä
elative
riveristään riveristänsä
rivereistään rivereistänsä
illative
riveriinsä
rivereihinsä
adessive
riverillään riverillänsä
rivereillään rivereillänsä
ablative
riveriltään riveriltänsä
rivereiltään rivereiltänsä
allative
riverilleen riverillensä
rivereilleen rivereillensä
essive
riverinään riverinänsä
rivereinään rivereinänsä
translative
riverikseen riveriksensä
rivereikseen rivereiksensä
abessive
riverittään riverittänsä
rivereittään rivereittänsä
instructive
comitative
—rivereineen rivereinensä :

#### Synonyms

* viides avokortti, viimeinen avokortti

#### See also

* joki (“river”)

## French
### Etymology

From a Germanic source (compare Danish rive).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁi.ve/

### Verb

river
* to drive/set a rivet

#### Related terms

* rive

### Further reading

* “river”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* virer

## Latin
### Verb

rīver
* first-person singular present passive subjunctive of rīvō

## Middle English
### Noun

river
* Alternative form of ryver

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

river m or f
* indefinite plural of rive

### Verb

river
* present of rive

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

river f
* indefinite plural of rive

### Verb

river
* (non-standard since 2012) present of riva

## Swedish
### Verb

river
* present indicative of riva

### Anagrams

* revir, virre