river
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪvɚ/
enpr: rĭv'ər
ipa: /ˈɹɪvə/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rivers
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
text: 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.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: a river of blood
glosses: Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
examples: text: He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river.
ref: 2017, Nathan Schwiethale, Ace High: Mastering Low Stakes Poker Cash Games, page 70:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The last card dealt in a hand.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
Synonyms: word: large
word: river
word: small
word: brooklet
word: burnlet
word: ree
word: rill
word: rith
word: rithe
word: rivulet
word: runlet
word: streamlet
word: unsorted
word: arroyo
word: bayou
word: beck
word: bogan
word: bogue
word: bourn
word: branch
word: anabranch
word: brook
word: burn
word: coulee
word: creek
word: crick
word: distributary
word: drain
word: draw
word: ea
word: eau
word: fork
word: fresh
word: freshet
word: gill
word: kill
word: lake [⇒ thesaurus] "stream of running water"
word: letch
word: lick
word: nahal
word: nailbourne
word: outlet
word: prong
word: pup
word: rine
word: rhine
word: rindle
word: rito
word: run
word: runnel
word: sike
word: sitch
word: stream
word: tributary
word: wadi
word: wash
word: winterbourne
Hypernyms: word: watercourse
word: body of water
word: landform
Hyponyms: word: affluent
Meronyms: word: waterfall
word: rapid
word: delta
word: estuary
word: mouth
word: meander
word: ford
word: source
Derived terms: word: Amazon river dolphin
word: American River
word: Amur River
word: Apple River
word: Arm River
word: atmospheric river
word: Augusta-Margaret River
word: Bear River
word: Blue River
word: braided river
word: Campbell River
word: Chang River
word: Chicamacomico River
word: Chinese river dolphin
word: Colorado River Numic
word: Columbia River
word: Crimea river
word: cross-river
word: cross the river
word: cry someone a river
word: Crystal River
word: Deep River
word: Delaware River
word: denial is not a river in Egypt
word: Detroit River
word: downriver
word: Eagle River
word: East River
word: Elk River
word: English River
word: Fall River
word: Fox River
word: French River
word: the river to the sea
word: Fryingpan River
word: Garden River
word: Gila River
word: Great River Road
word: Green River
word: Green River ordinance
word: Green River Ordinance
word: Guadalupe River
word: Gunnison River
word: Haw River syndrome
word: Hay River
word: heritage river
word: Hood River
word: Huai River
word: Huai river
word: Hutt River
word: Illinois River
word: Indian River
word: inverted river delta
word: Japanese river fever
word: Kansas River
word: Kentucky River
word: Klip River
word: lazy river
word: Leaf River
word: Lesser Slave River
word: Lister's river snail
word: Little Colorado River
word: Little River
word: Long River
word: lost river
word: Lost River sucker
word: Mad River
word: Margaret River
word: Maurice River
word: Middle River
word: midriver
word: Minnesota River
word: Mississippi River
word: Missouri River
word: Mooi River
word: Moose River
word: Mora River
word: multiriver
word: Murrumbidgee river rattler
word: myrtle of the river
word: Northern Rivers
word: over the river
word: over the river and through the woods
word: palaeoriver
word: paleoriver
word: pass the river
word: Peace River
word: Pearl River
word: pink river dolphin
word: Powder River
word: Puerco River
word: Rainy River
word: red river hog
word: riverage
word: riverbank
word: river basin
word: riverbed
word: riverbend
word: river birch
word: river blindness
word: riverboard
word: riverboarder
word: riverboarding
word: riverboat
word: river bottom
word: river boulder
word: river bug
word: river bugging
word: river-bush
word: rivercane
word: river carp
word: river chicken
word: river chub
word: river crab
word: rivercraft
word: Riverdale
word: riverdamsel
word: riverdance
word: river dog
word: river dolphin
word: River Don
word: river-dragon
english: Anatinae
translation: Anatinae
word: river duck
word: river dune
word: River Edge
word: riveret
word: riverfront
word: riverful
word: river god
word: rivergoing
word: river gum
word: Riverhead
word: riverhemp
taxonomic: Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
word: river hog
word: riverhood
word: river horse
word: riverine
word: riverish
word: river island
word: river jack
word: riverkeeper
taxonomic: Lampetra fluviatilis
word: river lamprey
word: riverless
word: riverlet
word: riverlike
taxonomic: Ancylus fluviatilis
word: river limpet
word: riverling
word: riverman
word: river mouth
english: Unionidae
translation: Unionidae
word: river mussel
word: river oats
word: river otter
word: riverpark
taxonomic: Grias cauliflora
word: river pear
word: riverplain
word: river poison
word: riverport
taxonomic: Macrobrachium spp.
word: river prawn
word: river pumpkin
word: river rat
word: river red gum
word: river run
word: river runner
word: river running
word: riverscape
taxonomic: Alosa chrysochloris
alt: Gudusia spp.
word: river shad
word: river shark
word: riverside
english: Viviparidae
translation: Viviparidae
word: river snail
word: river swallow
word: Riverton
word: river turtle
word: river valley
word: riverwalk
word: river walk
word: river warbler
word: riverward
word: riverwards
word: river water
word: riverwater
word: riverway
word: riverweed
word: riverwise
word: riverwoman
word: riverworthy
word: rivery
word: Roaring Fork River
word: Rock River
word: Rocky River
word: run-of-the-river
word: Rush River
word: Russian River
word: Sables-Spanish Rivers
word: Saint Lawrence River
word: salmon river
word: Salmon River
word: Salt River
word: Saskatchewan River
word: sell down the river
word: Sendai River
word: Smoky River
word: soldier river barb
word: St. Johns River
word: St. Marys River
word: Sturgeon River
word: submarine river
word: Swan River
word: Tennessee River
word: Three Rivers
word: tidal river
word: Tocantins River
word: Touws River
word: Two Hearted River
word: Two Rivers
word: upriver
word: up the river
word: Victoria River
word: Wells River
word: West River
word: White River
word: wild river
word: Winnipeg River
word: Yampa River
word: Yellow river
word: Yellow River
word: you can't step in the same river twice
word: youthful river
word: Yukon River
word: Zuni River
english: river
translation: river
urls: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:English+lemmas&from=river#mw-pages
word: English terms starting with
Related terms: word: fluvial
word: tributary
word: water
word: freshwater
word: alluvium
word: sediment
word: riverbend
word: riverbank
word: riverbed
word: riverfront
word: valley
word: canyon
word: glen
word: gorge
word: strath
word: drainage basin
word: confluence
word: channel
word: floodplain
word: riverplain
word: billabong
word: oxbow lake
word: fish
word: amphibian
word: muskrat
word: river dolphin
word: Amazon River dolphin
word: baiji
word: pink river dolphin
word: tucuxi
word: crest
word: flood
word: drought
word: bridge
word: weir
word: dam
word: dock
word: port
word: flatboat
word: pulwar
word: raft
word: riverboat
word: river runner
word: rum-tum
word: showboat
word: struse
word: thalamegos
word: fisher
word: river rat
word: riverkeeper
word: riverman
word: swimmer
word: water bailiff
word: geography
word: hydrology
word: riparian
word: riverine
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 348. River
word: :Category:en:Rivers