River

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water and usually fed along its course by converging tributaries.
  • n. A stream or abundant flow: a river of tears.
  • idiom. up the river Slang In or into prison.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, ending at an ocean or in an inland sea. Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
  • n. Any large flow of a liquid in a single body (e.g., 'a river of blood').
  • n. The last card dealt in a hand.
  • v. To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who rives or splits.
  • n. A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
  • n. Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance.
  • verb-intransitive. To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who rives or splits.
  • n. A considerable body of water flowing with a perceptible current in a certain definite course or channel, and usually without cessation during the entire year.
  • n. In law, a stream of flowing water, of greater magnitude than a rivulet or brook.
  • n. A large stream; copious flow; abundance: as, rivers of oil.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stream    watercourse   
    Hyponym
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abundance    stream    rivulet    riveret    riverling    tributary    affluent    anabranch    Jordan    death   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Liver    deliver    downriver    giver    liver    quiver    shiver    sliver    upriver   
    Unknown
    Travel   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    stream    sea    mountain    road    water    valley    island    shore    rock    wave