river
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: rivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rivers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rivering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rivered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rivered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
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.
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.
gloss: Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
pos: noun
examples: a river of blood
gloss: The last card dealt in a hand.
pos: noun
examples: He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river.
gloss: A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
pos: noun
gloss: To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
pos: verb
examples: Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.
Synonyms: large
river
small
brooklet
burnlet
ree
rill
rith
rithe
rivulet
runlet
streamlet
unsorted
arroyo
bayou
beck
bogan
bogue
bourn
branch
anabranch
brook
burn
coulee
creek
crick
distributary
drain
draw
ea
eau
fork
fresh
freshet
gill
kill
lake [⇒ thesaurus] "stream of running water"
letch
lick
nahal
nailbourne
outlet
prong
pup
rine
rhine
rindle
rito
run
runnel
sike
sitch
stream
tributary
wadi
wash
winterbourne
Related words: fluvial
tributary
water
freshwater
alluvium
sediment
riverbend
riverbank
riverbed
riverfront
valley
canyon
glen
gorge
strath
drainage basin
confluence
channel
floodplain
riverplain
billabong
oxbow lake
fish
amphibian
muskrat
river dolphin
Amazon River dolphin
baiji
pink river dolphin
tucuxi
crest
flood
drought
bridge
weir
dam
dock
port
flatboat
pulwar
raft
riverboat
river runner
rum-tum
showboat
struse
thalamegos
fisher
river rat
riverkeeper
riverman
swimmer
water bailiff
geography
hydrology
riparian
riverine
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 348. River
:Category:en:Rivers
Derived words: Abba River
Adelaide River
Agidel River
Alice River
Amazon river dolphin
American River
Amur River
Angelo River
Apple River
Archer River
Arm River
Arthur River
atmospheric river
Augusta-Margaret River
Bass River
Battle River
Bear River
Beaufort River
Belmore River
Bemm River
Black River
Blue River
braided river
Brodribb River
Broken River
Broughton River Valley
Buffalo River
Burrum River
Campbell River
Cann River
Capel River
Carbunup River
Carlisle River
Carlton River
Cells River
Chang River
Chicamacomico River
Chinese river dolphin
Colorado River Numic
Columbia River
Copper River
Cotter River
Crawford River
Crimea river
Crooked River
cross-river
cross the river
cry someone a river
Crystal River
Curdies River
Cygnet River
Daly River
Darwin River
Darwin River Dam
Deep River
Delaware River
Delegate River
De Mole River
denial is a river in Egypt
denial is not a river in Egypt
Detroit River
Deua River Valley
Devils River
Donnelly River
Douglas River
downriver
Doyles River
Drysdale River
Dutton River
Eagle River
East Lyons River
East River
Edward River
Eel River
Elk River
English River
Fall River
Fitzgerald River National Park
Forbes River
Forked River
Fox River
Frankland River
French River
the river to the sea
Fryingpan River
Garden River
Gascoyne River
Gawler River
Gila River
Gilbert River
Great River Road
Green River
Green River ordinance
Green River Ordinance
Gregory River
Grey River
Guadalupe River
Gunnison River
Harris River
Haw River syndrome
Hay River
heritage river
Hill River
Holroyd River
Hood River
Huai River
Huai river
Hutt River
Illinois River
Indian River
inverted river delta
Isis River
Jack River
Japanese river fever
Jardine River
Johns River
Kansas River
Kennett River
Kentucky River
King River
Klip River
lazy river
Leaf River
Lesser Slave River
Lister's river snail
Little Colorado River
Little River
Lockhart River
Long River
Lort River
lost river
Lost River
Lost River sucker
Lune River
Mackenzie River
Mad River
Margaret River
Maroochy River
Maurice River
Middle River
midriver
Minnesota River
Mission River
Mississippi River
Missouri River
Mole River
Mooi River
Moore River National Park
Moose River
Mora River
Mountain River
Mount Rivers
Mount Riverview
multiriver
Murrumbidgee river rattler
myrtle of the river
Namoi River
Northern Rivers
Ord River
over the river
over the river and through the woods
Paddys River
Pages River
palaeoriver
paleoriver
pass the river
Peace River
Pearl River
Pike River
pink river dolphin
Pipers River
Pit River language
Polish Hill River
Powder River
Prince Regent River
Puerco River
Rainy River
Red River
red river hog
Reid River
riverage
riverbank
river basin
riverbed
Riverbend
River Bend
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
rivercourse
river crab
rivercraft
Riverdale
riverdamsel
riverdance
river dog
river dolphin
River Don
river-dragon
river duck
river dune
River Edge
riveret
riverfront
riverful
Riverglades
Riverglen
river god
rivergoing
river gum
Riverhead
riverhead
River Heads
riverhemp
Riverhills
river hog
riverhood
river horse
riverine
riverish
river island
river jack
riverkeeper
river lamprey
Riverlea
Riverleigh
riverless
riverlet
riverlike
river limpet
riverling
riverman
river mouth
river mussel
river oats
river otter
riverpark
river pear
riverplain
river poison
riverport
river prawn
river pumpkin
River Ranch
river rat
river red gum
river run
river runner
river running
riverscape
river shad
river shark
Riverside
riverside
Riverslea
Riversleigh
river snail
Riverstone
river swallow
Riverton
Rivertree
river turtle
Rivervale
river valley
Riverview
riverwalk
river walk
river warbler
riverward
riverwards
riverwash
river water
riverwater
riverway
riverweed
riverwise
riverwoman
Riverwood
riverworthy
rivery
Roaring Fork River
Robinson River
Rock River
Rocky River
Roger River
Rose River
Ross River
run-of-the-river
Rush River
Russian River
Sabina River
Sables-Spanish Rivers
Saddle River
Saint Lawrence River
salmon river
Salmon River
Salt River
Saltwater River
Saskatchewan River
Savage River
Saxtons River
Scott River
Scott River East
sell down the river
Sendai River
Sierra Leone River
Sluch River
Smoky River
soldier river barb
Southern River
Stewarts River
St. Johns River
St. Marys River
Sturgeon River
submarine river
Susan River
Swan River
Tanana River
Tennessee River
Three Rivers
tidal river
Tocantins River
Touws River
Twin Rivers
Two Hearted River
Two Rivers
Upper Kangaroo River
Upper Karuah River
upriver
up the river
Victoria River
Wards River
Weir River
Wells River
Western River
West Lyons River
West River
White River
Whites River
wild river
Willson River
Wingan River
Winnipeg River
Wye River
Yampa River
Yass River
Yellow river
Yellow River
you can't step in the same river twice
youthful river
Yukon River
Zuni River
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