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Definition: River

River

Noun

1. A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"River" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a river".

Date "river" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: River

DomainDefinition

Bible

River (1.) Heb. 'aphik, properly the channel or ravine that holds water (2 Sam. 22:16), translated "brook," "river," "stream," but not necessarily a perennial stream (Ezek. 6:3; 31:12; 32:6; 34:13). (2.) Heb. nahal, in winter a "torrent," in summer a "wady" or valley (Gen. 32:23; Deut. 2:24; 3:16; Isa. 30:28; Lam. 2:18; Ezek. 47:9). These winter torrents sometimes come down with great suddenness and with desolating force. A distinguished traveller thus describes his experience in this matter:, "I was encamped in Wady Feiran, near the base of Jebel Serbal, when a tremendous thunderstorm burst upon us. After little more than an hour's rain, the water rose so rapidly in the previously dry wady that I had to run for my life, and with great difficulty succeeded in saving my tent and goods; my boots, which I had not time to pick up, were washed away. In less than two hours a dry desert wady upwards of 300 yards broad was turned into a foaming torrent from 8 to 10 feet deep, roaring and tearing down and bearing everything upon it, tangled masses of tamarisks, hundreds of beautiful palmtrees, scores of sheep and goats, camels and donkeys, and even men, women, and children, for a whole encampment of Arabs was washed away a few miles above me. The storm commenced at five in the evening; at half-past nine the waters were rapidly subsiding, and it was evident that the flood had spent its force." (Comp. Matt. 7:27; Luke 6:49.) (3.) Nahar, a "river" continuous and full, a perennial stream, as the Jordan, the Euphrates (Gen. 2:10; 15:18; Deut. 1:7; Ps. 66:6; Ezek. 10:15). (4.) Tel'alah, a conduit, or water-course (1 Kings 18:32; 2 Kings 18:17; 20:20; Job 38:25; Ezek. 31:4). (5.) Peleg, properly "waters divided", i.e., streams divided, throughout the land (Ps. 1:3); "the rivers [i.e., 'divisions'] of waters" (Job 20:17; 29:6; Prov. 5:16). (6.) Ye'or, i.e., "great river", probably from an Egyptian word (Aur), commonly applied to the Nile (Gen. 41:1-3), but also to other rivers (Job 28:10; Isa. 33:21). (7.) Yubhal, "a river" (Jer. 17:8), a full flowing stream. (8.) 'Ubhal, "a river" (Dan. 8:2). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Dream Interpretation

If you see a clear, smooth, flowing river in your dream, you will soon succeed to the enjoyment of delightful pleasures, and prosperity will bear flattering promises.
If the waters are muddy or tumultuous, there will be disagreeable and jealous contentions in your life.
If you are water-bound by the overflowing of a river, there will be temporary embarrassments in your business, or you will suffer uneasiness lest some private escapade will reach public notice and cause your reputation harsh criticisms.
If while sailing upon a clear river you see corpses in the bottom, you will find that trouble and gloom will follow swiftly upon present pleasures and fortune.
To see empty rivers, denotes sickness and unusual ill-luck. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Geography

A large natural watercourse generally flowing into the sea. Source: European Union. (references)
 A large natural watercourse. Source: European Union. (references)
 A body of water flowing in a usually natural surface channel. Source: European Union. (references)

Hydrologic

A natural stream of water of considerable volume, larger than a brook or creek. (references)

Occupations

Rives (splits) logs or wooden blocks into bolts, pickets, posts, shakes, or stakes, using handtools, such as ax wedges, sledgehammer, froe, and mallet: Drives wedge into log with ax and sledgehammer to split log along grain to form posts or bolts. Positions froe on block according to grain and thickness of specified product and pounds it into block with mallet to start cut. Pulls froe handle up or down to pry and split pieces from block. May fell trees, using chain saw [FALLER (logging) II] and cut logs into desired lengths [BUCKER (logging)]. May be designated according to product cut as Rail Splitter (logging); Shake Splitter (logging); Shingle-Bolt Cutter (logging); Stave-Block Splitter (logging). (references)

Publishing & Graphic Arts

White vertical line in a page which results from the spacing of words in consecutive lines falling in a straight line. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Delaware River

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Delaware River is a river on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

The Delaware River at New Hope, Pennsylvania.

1911 encyclopedia text:

It meets tide-water at Trenton, New Jersey. Its total length, from the head of the longest branch to the capes, is 410 miles, and above the head of the bay its length is 360 miles.

It constitutes in part the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York, the boundary between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and, for a few miles, the boundary between Delaware and New Jersey.

The main, west or Mohawk branch rises in Schoharie county, N.Y, about 1886 feet above the sea, and flows tortuously through the plateau in a deep trough until it emerges from the Catskills. Other branches rise in Greene and Delaware counties.

In the upper portion of its course the varied scenery of its hilly and wooded banks is exquisitely beautiful. After leaving the mountains and plateau, the river flows down broad Appalachian valleys, skirts the Kittatinny range, which it crosses at Delaware Water-Gap, between nearly vertical walls of sandstone, and passes through a quiet and charming country of farm and forest, diversified with plateaus and escarpments, until it crosses the Appalachian plain and enters the hills again at Easton, Pa From this point it is flanked at intervals by fine hills, and in places by cliffs, of which the finest are the Hockamixon Rocks, 3 miles long and above 200 feet high.

At Trenton there is a fall of 8 feet. Below Trenton the river becomes a broad, sluggish inlet of the sea, with many marshes along its side, widening steadily into its great estuary, Delaware Bay.

Its main tributaries in New York are Mongaup and Neversink rivers and Callicoon Creek; from Pennsylvania, Lackawaxen, Lehigh, and Schuylkill rivers; and from New Jersey, Rancocas Creek and Musconetcong and Maurice rivers.

Commerce was once important on the upper river, but only before the beginning of railway competition (1857). The Delaware division of the Pennsylvania Canal, running parallel with the river from Easton to Bristol, was opened in 1830. A canal from Trenton to New Brunswick, called the Delaware & Raritan Canal, unites the waters of the Delaware and Raritan rivers; the Morris and the Delaware and Hudson canals connect the Delaware and Hudson rivers; and the Delaware and Chesapeake canal joins the waters of the Delaware with those of the Chesapeake Bay.

The mean tides below Philadelphia are about 6 feet. The magnitude of the commerce of Philadelphia has made the improvements of the river below that port of great importance. Small improvements were attempted by Pennsylvania as early as 1771.

In the “project of 1885“ the United States government undertook systematically the formation of a 26-ft. channel 600 ft. wide from Philadelphia to deep water in Delaware Bay. The River and Harbor Act of 1899 provided for a 30-foot channel 600 feet wide from Philadelphia to the deep water of the bay.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Delaware River."

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List of rivers of the Americas

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This list of rivers of the Americas includes all the major rivers of the Americas. See each article for their tributaries, drainage areas, etc. Unusually significant tributaries appear in this list, under the river into which they drain.

North America

Central America

South America

Related articles and lists

See also: Rivers of Europe, Rivers of Asia, Rivers of Africa, Alphabetical list of Rivers in the World, and List of reference tables (lists other than rivers)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of rivers of the Americas."

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River

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A river is a large natural waterway. Passage via a river or stream is the usual way rainfall on land finds its way to the ocean or other large body of water such as a lake. A river consists of several basic parts, originating from headwaters that flow into the main stream. Smaller side streams that join the river are tributaries. Water flow is normally confined to a channel, with a bottom or bed between banks. The lower end of a river is its mouth.

Topography

A river conducts water by constantly flowing perpendicular to the elevation curve of its bed, thereby converting the positional energy of the water into kinetic energy. Where a river flows over relatively flat areas, the river will meander: start to form loops and snake through the plain by eroding the river banks. Loops that are formed are sometimes cut off, forming a shorter river channel and leaving a remnant, oxbow lake. Rivers that carry large amounts of sediment develop conspicuous deltass at their mouths. Rivers whose mouths are in saline tidal waters may form estuaries.

Where a river descends quickly over sloped topography, rapids with whitewater or even waterfallss occur. Rapids are often used for recreational purposes (see Whitewater canoeing and kayaking). Waterfalls are sometimes used as sources of energy, via watermills and hydroelectric plants.

Rivers begin at their source in higher ground, either rising from a spring, forming from glacial meltwater, flowing from a body of water such as a lake, or simply from damp, boggy places where the soil is waterlogged. They end at their sink where they flow into a larger body of water, the sea, a lake, or as a tributary to another (usually larger) river. In arid areas rivers sometimes end by losing water to evaporation and percolation into dry, porous material such as sand, soil, or pervious rock.

See also

Biology

The flora and fauna of rivers are much different from those of the ocean because the water is sweet (non-salty). Living things in a river must be adapted to the current of the moving water.

Pollution

Human pollution of rivers is common, and very few rivers in the world today are clean of man-made substances. The most common pollutant is sewage piped into rivers, but chemical pollution is also common, and industrial accidents (and/or negligence) account for much of the destructon of riparian biomes. Heat dumped into rivers by power plants and factories also affects river life.

Dams

In places where the elevation changes of a river are great, dams for hydroelectric plants and other purposes are often built. This disrupts the natural flow of the river, and creates a lake behind the dam. Often the building of dams affects the whole of the river, even the part above the dam, as migrating fish are hindered and waterflow is no longer bounded by seasonal changes. One very famous, and problematic, dam is the Aswan High Dam in the Nile.

Flooding

Flooding is a natural part of a river's cycles. Human activity, however, has upset the natural way flooding occurs by walling off rivers and straightening their courses. Removal of bogs, swamps and other wetlands in order to produce farmland has reduced the absorption zones for excess water and made floods into sudden disasters rather than gradual increases in water flow. In ancient Egypt, life was made possible through the floods of the Nile and the accompanying silt and sediment which enriched the fields with fresh nutrients. Nowadays, floods are disasters, causing untold property loss each year.

Transport

Management

In its natural state a river may be inconvenient to man in a variety of ways. Rivers in inhabited areas have therefore been managed or controlled to make them more useful and less disruptive to human activity.

River management is an ongoing activity as rivers tend to 'undo' the modifications made by man. Dredged channels silt up, sluice mechanisms deteriorate with age, levees and dams may suffer seepage or catastrophic failure.

River lists

The world's ten longest rivers:

Well-known rivers (in alphabetic order):

See also

Fiction

Fictional rivers

Other fiction

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Saint Lawrence River

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

simple:Saint Lawrence River The Saint Lawrence River (French fleuve Saint-Laurent), originally Kaniatarowanenneh ("big waterway") in Mohawk, is a large west-to-east flowing river in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It bisects the Canadian province of Quebec and forms part of the border between New York State in the United States and the province of Ontario in Canada.

The Saint Lawrence River is born at the outflow of Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario. From there, it passes Brockville, Cornwall, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, and Quebec City before draining into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the largest estuary in the world. It runs 1900 miles (3058 kilometers), and together with the Great Lakes which it drains, and their tributaries, forms the world's largest fresh-water system.

The river includes Lac Saint-Louis south of Montreal and Lac Saint-François at Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec. It surrounds such islands as the Thousand Islands near Kingston, the Island of Montreal, Île Jésus (Laval), Île d'Orléans near Quebec City, and Anticosti Island north of the Gaspé.

Lake Champlain and the Ottawa, Richelieu, and Saguenay rivers drain into the St. Lawrence.

The first European to navigate the St. Lawrence was Jacques Cartier, who also claimed New France for Francis I. The French called the river Rivière du Canada until the early 1600s.

The St. Lawrence was formerly continuously navigable only as far as Montreal due to the Lachine Rapids. The Lachine Canal was the first to allow ships to pass the rapids; the Saint Lawrence Seaway, an extensive system of canals and locks, now permits ocean-going vessels to pass all the way to Lake Superior.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Saint Lawrence River."

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Zeta (river)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Zeta is a river in Montenegro. It starts near Nikšić and confluxes into Morača near Montenegro's capital Podgorica.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Zeta (river)."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: River

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
RINEnglishRiver International NetworkEnvironment

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: River

Synonym by domain: guttered (publishing & graphic arts).

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Synonyms within Context: River

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Land

Riverbank, river bank, levee.

River

Spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet; streamlet, brooklet; branch; runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary.

Phrase: "for men may come and men may go but I go on forever"; "that old man river, he just keeps rolling along".

Time

Glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time; scythe.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: River

Non-English Usage: "River" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (clinch, rivet), Indonesian (sungai), Swedish (demolishes).

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Modern Usage: River

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Though the fire seemed to spread through the quarter, I stood on that deck, fearful he would come out again from the very river, like some monster, to destroy us both (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

I mean I just came here from Deep River, Ontario, and now I'm in this dream place (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

And God has never answered my prayers until now. God saved you from the river, He saved you in all your wanderings, and even now, he saves you from the wrath of Pharaoh (The Prince of Egypt; writing credit: Ken Harsha; Carole Holliday)

Love knows nothing of rank or river bank (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard)

The son of my hated rival trapped forever in a river of death (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson)

Lyrics

Swim across the river, just to prove that I'm a man. (Mountain Music; performing artist: ALABAMA; writing credit: Randy Owen)

Flow like a lazy river (Biggest Part of Me; performing artist: Ambrosia)

And tossed it in the river below (One Voice; performing artist: Billy Gilman)

There's a tugboat, huh, huh, down by the river dontcha know ("Mack the Knife"; performing artist: Bobby Darin)

Like a river that don't know where it's flowing (HUNGRY HEART; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Clever

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Tongue Twisters

The crow flew over the river with a lump of raw liver. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Tornado of Pearl River (1974)

Runaway on Rogue River (1974)

River-Ghost - Hudson River Diary: Book IV (1973)

Bad Man's River (1972)

Kenny Rogers and the First Edition: Rollin' on the River (1971)

Song Titles

Moon River (performing artist: Jerry Butler)

RED RIVER ROCK  (performing artist: Johnny & Hurricanes )

River Come Down (performing artist: The Journeymen)

Take Me To The River (performing artist: Talkingheads)

The River Is Wide (performing artist: The Grass Roots)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: River

DomainTitle

References

  • American river bank: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Dan River Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Hudson River Bancorp, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Blue River Bancshares, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • James River Bankshares, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945 (Texas A&m University Military History Series, No 42) (reference)

  • Thomas Spry, lawyer and physician : the first attorney admitted to practise under English law in the Delaware River settlements (reference)

  • Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River (reference)

  • Geologic History of the Columbia River Gorge, As Interpreted from the Historic Columbia River Scenic Highway (Jack Murdock Publication Series on The) (reference)

  • Australian aboriginal paintings in western and central Arnhem land; temporal sequences and elements of style in Cadell River and Deaf Adder Creek art (reference)

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Periodicals

  • Black River Journal (reference)

  • Charles River Digest (reference)

  • Indian Journal Of Power & River Valley Development (reference)

  • Lewis River News And Kalama Bulletin (reference)

  • Lower Wisconsin River Genealogical And Historical Research Center Membership (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: River

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Photo Album: River

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Eiffel Tower from across Seine River, Paris, France. Credit: CDC.

Yangtze River, Three Gorges section. Credit: CDC.

"Velocity Field for a Stream" by Tom Tredon. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A (one river bank), B (the other river bank), or C (the speed of the stream). Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info.

Rocket Barge on the Pearl River. Credit: NASA.

Brazil's Araca River is a tributary of the Negro River, which feeds into the Amazon. Credit: NASA.

A marsh-like area borders the Demini River in northwestern Brazil. The Demini eventually joins the Amazon River. Credit: NASA.

Coast Survey engraving of the Hudson River near West Point. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Ferry, Snake River" - White 3/4 ton truck Astro Party of C. V. Hodges. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Looking south toward mouth of Naknek River near village of Naknek. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A view of Salt River Bay, where Columbus landed and was attacked by native Americans. This is a National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: River
 

"River Tuffet" by Kelly Cline
Commentary: "Tuft of grass in The Green River Valley."		"Tennessee River USA" by John Barnes
Commentary: "Tennessee river USA."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "River".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Stream; woods; forest; wildlife; water; river; gurgle; babbling; brook.Stream; woods; forest; wildlife; water; river; gurgle; babbling; brook; bird; .
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: River

AuthorQuotation

Bacon

Fame, if like a river, beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Francis Bacon

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Heraclitus

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

John Enoch Powell

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

Minna Antrim

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

President Abraham Lincoln

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

Robert Burton

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

Virgil

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: River

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

No village or individual shall be compelled to make bridges at river banks, except those who from of old were legally bound to do so. (reference)

John Locke

1690

No body could think himself injured by the drinking of another man, though he took a good draught, who had a whole river of the same water left him to quench his thirst: and the case of land and water, where there is enough of both, is perfectly the same. (Second Treatise of Government)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

When the two banks of an international river are within the same State goods in transit may be placed under seal or in the custody of customs agents. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: River

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Javert reached the bridge in time to see Jean Valjean on the other side of the river leading Cosette across the space lighted by the moon

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

The firelight flickered on the wall and beyond the window a spectral dusk was gathering upon the river.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Tom strolled away casually, but as soon as he was away from the group he hurried his steps, and he disappeared among the willows that lined the river.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

This city stands upon almost two equal parts on each side the river that passes through

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were almost as green as grass

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: River

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Endemic in parts of the central and eastern United States along Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. (references)

The first epidemic of RVF in West Africa was reported in 1987 and was linked to construction of the Senegal River Project. (references)

The project caused flooding in the lower Senegal River area and altered interactions between animals and humans resulting in transmission of the RVF virus to humans. (references)

Business

This is particularly true of small, inland river ports along the Yangtze River. (references)

Telecom has 27,000 lines installed, mostly located in the Parana River Delta region. (references)

It also reserves the Caroni, Paragua and Caura river basins sector generation for the State. (references)

Children

Mauritania

Despite these increases, enrollment in the eastern part of the country, the Brakna, and along the Senegal River remained at a lower level. (references)

Congo

There were indigent street children in Brazzaville, and their numbers appear to be growing as a result of civil conflict since 1997. In addition children from the DRC easily cross the river by stowing away on the ferry, which crosses several times per day, to seek improved living conditions. (references)

Civil Liberties

Congo

Humanitarian shipments between Kinshasa and rebel-held Kisangani resumed by river in August. (references)

Economic History

Korea

River clean-up projects rank as a top priority. (references)

Burkina Faso

River blindness has been eliminated from the region. (references)

India

Terrain: Varies from Himalayas to flat river valleys. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

The other reportedly drowned after he was chased into a river by ZANU-PF supporters. (references)

Egypt

Some were arrested aboard a boat on the Nile River that allegedly served as a gay disco. (references)

Guatemala

On May 28 and 29, respectively, the heads of the two men appeared in different tributaries of the Guacalate River. (references)

Indigenous People

Peru

In the same region, along the Pastaza River, the 4,700 members of the Achuar people live in 36 communities, only 12 of which have title to their land. (references)

Peru

Isolated primarily along the Ene River in Junin department, the terrorist group continued to coerce indigenous peasants into joining its ranks and to demand war taxes. (references)

Colombia

They drew the attention of the Government in particular to the paramilitary killing in June of Embera-Katio leader Pedro Alirio Domico, governor of Esmeralda River Indigenous Reserve, Cordoba department, and Alberto Sabugara Velasquez, leader of the Gengaro Indigenous Reserve, Choco department. (references)

Minorities

Nigeria

In the east, violent border disputes between Cross River and Akwa Ibom states continued during the year. (references)

Greece

The Municipality of Pyrgos, Peloponnese, issued health cards to the Roma living permanently in the area and established a preschool center close to the Roma camp near the Alfeios River. (references)

Political Economy

Israel

In November 1998, the GOI approved the Wye River Memorandum. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

Most river ports have been turned into open or closed joint stock companies. (references)

Guinea

Guinea is a member of the Mano River Union, which creates a customs union between Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. (references)

Switzerland

The Rhine River port of Basel has transit warehouses for grain and similar goods for mass consumption; storage time is unlimited. (references)

Travel

Chad

Kousserie: Located across the river in Cameroon, Kousserie has a daily market, several general stores, and fabric shops. (references)

Senegal

Traveling between Dakar and Nouakchott (Mauritania), a 565 kilometer trip, often can take more than 10 hours, including the crossing of the Senegal river via ferry at the Mauritania border. (references)

Senegal

The Embassy has advised U.S. citizens to avoid travel to the area south of the Casamance River from the Ziguinchor-Bissau road east to the village of Tanaf, excluding the towns of Ziguinchor and Cap Skirring. (references)

Women

Nigeria

In 2000 Edo, Ogun, Cross River, Osun, Rivers, and Bayelsa States banned FGM. In Edo State, the punishment is a $10 (1,000 naira) fine and 6 months' imprisonment. (references)

Worker Rights

Nigeria

An EPZ remains under development in Calabar, Cross River State, and a second EPZ is planned for Port Harcourt, Rivers State. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Many of them were sold in Belgrade, and from there were smuggled across the Drina River at Zvornik and Bijeljina into the country. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ALLIGATOR, n. The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. Herodotus says the Indus is, with one exception, the only river that produces crocodiles, but they appear to have gone West and grown up with the other rivers. From the notches on his back the alligator is called a sawrian.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: River

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797A part of the Cherokees, known by the name of Chickamaugas, inhabiting five villages on the Tennessee River, have long been in the practice of committing depredations on the neighboring settlements.

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Lewis and Clarke for exploring the river Missouri and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocean has had all the success which could have been expected.

James Madison

1809-1817In such a conjuncture I did not delay the interposition required for the occupancy of the territory west of the river Perdido, to which the title of the United States extends, and to which the laws provided for the Territory of Orleans are applicable.

James Monroe

1817-1825Lawrence to the navigation of that river to the ocean.

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829On a canal from Lake PontChartrain to the Mississippi River.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837This improvement, if successful, would afford a free passage of the river and render the canal entirely useless.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Through the use of the waters of the Columbia River, for example, we are creating a rich agricultural area as large as the State of Delaware.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969I recommend that you attack the wasteful and degrading poisoning of our rivers, and, as the cornerstone of this effort, clean completely entire large river basins.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981My Administration also supports the completion of the Upper Mississippi River Master Plan to determine the feasibility of constructing a second lock at Alton, Illinois.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Beyond those monuments to heroism is the Potomac River, and on the far shore the sloping hills of Arlington National Cemetery with its row on row of simple white markers bearing crosses or Stars of David.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: River

"River" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.23% of the time. "River" is used about 9,345 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)76.23%7,1231,361
Noun (proper)23.77%2,2223,959
                    Total100.00%9,345N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: River

The following table summarizes the usage of "river" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
RiverLast name1,00015,371
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: River

"River" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a river".
 
The following table summarizes names derived from the word "river".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
RioMaleN/A

A January river

RioMaleN/A

A river

JordanN/ABiblical

The river of judgment

SihorN/ABiblical

Trouble (the river Nile)

JoordN/ADutch

The river of judgment

JordaanN/ADutch

The river of judgment

JordonN/AEnglish

The river of judgment

JordynN/AEnglish

The river of judgment

JuddN/AEnglish

The river of judgment

RiverMale, FemaleEnglish

A river

JourdainN/AFrench

The river of judgment

GiordanoN/AItalian

The river of judgment

YardenN/AJewish

The river of judgment

YardenaN/AJewish

The river of judgment

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: River

CountryNameCountryName
Canada

High River Gold Mine Limited

Indonesia

Great River International Tbk. Pt.

Japan

Creek & River Co., Ltd.

USA

American river bank

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: River


1. River, KY
Zip Code(s): 41254
Country: USA

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Expressions: River

Expressions using "river": aare River ♦ across the river ♦ Alabama River ♦ Allegheny River ♦ amazon river ♦ amur River ♦ Apalachicola River ♦ apple River ♦ Araguaia River ♦ Araguaya River ♦ Arkansas River ♦ arm of a river ♦ bank of a river ♦ bank of the river ♦ bass River ♦ battle of Granicus River ♦ bear River City ♦ beaver River ♦ Beebe River ♦ big River ♦ bighorn River ♦ birch River ♦ black River ♦ black River Fall ♦ black River Falls ♦ blue River ♦ boy River ♦ braden River ♦ brahmaputra River ♦ braided river ♦ branch of a river ♦ branch of river ♦ Brazos River ♦ broad river ♦ canadian River ♦ Canton River ♦ Cape Fear River ♦ Carson River Valley ♦ cedar River ♦ Chari River ♦ Charles River ♦ chattahoochee River ♦ cimarron River ♦ colorado river ♦ Colorado River hemp ♦ columbia river ♦ congo river ♦ Connecticut River ♦ Conservators of the River Thames ♦ crocodile River ♦ Crooked River Ra ♦ cross a river ♦ Cross River ♦ crystal River ♦ Cumberland River ♦ current of river ♦ danube River ♦ darling River ♦ Deep River ♦ Deep River Center ♦ Deer River ♦ Delaware River ♦ Deschutes River Woods ♦ deschutes river woods or ♦ dnieper River ♦ Don River ♦ down the river ♦ Duck River ♦ Eagle River ♦ East River ♦ ebro River ♦ elbe River ♦ Elizabeth River ♦ Elk River ♦ euphrates river ♦ Fall River ♦ Fall River County ♦ Fall River Mills ♦ Flat River ♦ Flint River ♦ Forest River ♦ Forked River ♦ Fox River ♦ Fox River Grove ♦ Fox River Valley Gardens ♦ further down the river ♦ ganges River ♦ garonne River ♦ get across the river ♦ gila River ♦ Gold River ♦ Grand River ♦ Grays River ♦ Green River ♦ Harlem River ♦ Haw River ♦ head waters of a river ♦ Hood River ♦ Hood River County ♦ Housatonic River ♦ Hudson River. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "river": river-animals, river-bank, river-banks, river-based, river-basin, river-bed, river-beds, river-bore, river-borne, River-buses, river-carved, river-channel, river-coloured, river-cooled, river-crossing, river-delta, river-deltas, river-edge, river-feeding, river-flood, river-front, river-girt, river-god, river-horse, river-level, river-life, river-light-sky, river-like, river-maintenance, river-miles, river-mouth, river-nymph, river-people, river-plain, river-port, river-rafting, river-related, river-ribbons, river-shore, river-side, river-smelling, river-smoothed, river-steamer, River-stone, river-users, river-valley, river-walk, river-wall, river-water, river-worn, river-worthy.

Ending with "river": down-river, mid-river, up-river.

Containing "river": Port St. Lucie-River Park.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: River

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

river

8,149

colorado river rafting

825

river rafting

7,231

white river national forest

822

river trip

5,852

crystal river florida

707

rogue river

3,903

eagle river wisconsin

696

columbia river gorge

2,661

pearl river resort

678

snake river

2,235

fall river massachusetts

675

chassahowitzka river

1,813

river song

651

toms river nj

1,745

guadalupe river

614

mississippi river

1,311

amazon river

585

river cruise

1,242

yukon river

578

colorado river

1,180

patuxent river md

562

nile river

1,151

salt river project

475

white river amphitheater

1,069

boise festival river

458

american river college

1,051

kenai river

426

hood river lodging

974

green river community college

426

cry me a river

917

chicago river

414

river phoenix

878

red river

386

dead river

873

frio river

382

red river new mexico

871

digital river

381

river boat

863

river plate

360
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: River

Language Translations for "river"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

rivier. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

lumë (avalanche, barrator, effluent, flow, stream). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نهر (chute, flow, strand, stream, wadi), ‏دفق (afflux, effluence, effluent, flow, flux, inflow, inflowing, influx, outflow, outpouring, pour, pump, race, slop, stream, well). (various references)

   

Asturian

  

ríu. (various references)

   

Aymara

  

jahuira. (various references)

   

Basque

  

hibai. (various references)

   

Bemba

  

umumana. (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

niítahtaa. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

речен (fluvial, riverine), река (stream, water, watercourse), поток (current, flow, gush, nullah, onflow, pour, run, runnel, shower, stream, tide). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

riu. (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

suba. (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

saddok. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

河 . (various references)

   

Cornish

  

avon. (various references)

   

Czech

  

řeka. (various references)

   

Danish

  

flod (flood, high tide). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stroom (current, flow, stream, torrent, volley), rivier. (various references)

   

Ecuadorian Quechua

  

yacu (water). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

rivero. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

á (by, by means of, on, through, upon, with). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

رودخانه (Strand). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

joki (stream). (various references)

   

French

  

fleuve (large river, major river), rivière. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

rivier. (various references)

   

German

  

Strom (current, electricity, flux, gush, passage, power, stream, torrent, volley), Fluß (flow, fluency, flux), Fluss (circulation, continuity, flow, fluency, flux, molten mass, rate of flow). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ποτάμι (rivulet, streamlet). (various references)

   

Guarani

  

surubi (very tastybig river fish commonly fished and prepared in Paraguay). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

lumë. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

יאור (nile, the nile, water course), נחל (gorge, ravine, stream, torrent, valley), נהר (current, stream). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

folyó (flowing, flume, stream, streaming, streamy), folyam (stream). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

vatn (lake, loch, water). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sungai (stream). (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

kuuk. (various references)

   

Irish

  

abhainn. (various references)

   

Italian

  

fiume (flood, stream). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

河　 (stream), 河 (stream), 川 , 大河 (stream). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たいが (stream), おおかわ (stream), かわ (bark, case, fur, good story, hide, leather, part, pelt, row, shell, side, skin, stream, surroundings). (various references)

   

Kongo

  

nkoko. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

강 (jump). (various references)

   

Lombard

  

fium. (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

reka. (various references)

   

Manx

  

awin. (various references)

   

Maori

  

awa. (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

kahyonhowanen. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

flod, elv. (various references)

   

Occitan

  

riu (brook, stream). (various references)

   

Papago

  

akimel. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

riu. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iverray.(various references)

   

Polish

  

rzeka. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

rio (poised river, stable stream, stream). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

rio. (various references)

   

Provencal

  

riu. (various references)

   

Quechua

  

mayuneqpi (near the river), mayuman (to the river). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

riveran (riparian, riverain, riverside), rîu, râu (flood, stream, watercourse), vale (bottom, dale, Glen, hollow, pan, stream, Vale, valley), fluviu (flood, stream, watercourse), fluvial (fluvial, riverine), apã (adam's ale, adam's wine, Aqua, ocean, saliva, sea, stream, water, waters, waves). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

flum. (various references)

   

Romany

  

len. (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

uruzi. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

река (stream). (various references)

   

Samoan

  

vaitafe. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

abhainn. (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

noka (hip). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

reka, rečni (fluvial, riverine). (various references)

   

Shona

  

rukova. (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

ciumi. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

río (drift, nullah, stream). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

liba. (various references)

   

Swahili

  

mto. (various references)

   

Swazi

  

um-fula. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flod (flood, flow, flux, high tide, tide, torrent), älv, ström (current, electricity, flood, flow, flux, fountain, gush, jet, onflow, pour, race, rash, rush, sea, spate, stream, torrent), å (brook, och, on, stream). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

ílog. (various references)

   

Thai

  

แม่น้ำ, การไหล. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

nehir (artery, fluvial, potamic, stream), nehír, irmak, akış (afflux, course, efflux, flight, flow, flux, gliding, inflow, influx, passage, pour, run, tenor, tide), ırmak (Beck, Brook, potamic, the horn). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

derяa. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

річка (arroyo, nullah, nymph, stream), ріка (watercourse), потік (avalanche, cataract, current, deluge, downpour, flood, flow, outpour, rain, spate, splurge, torrent). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

dòng sông dòng chảy tràn ngập. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

afon. (various references)

   

Zulu

  

umfula. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: River

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

ida. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

flumen. (various references)

Sanskrit300 BCE-Modern

sindhu. (various references)

Old English450-1100

ea, lagustream. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: River

LanguageDateSourceActs Chapter 16, Verse 13
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintTh te hmera twn sabbatwn exhlqomen exw thV polewV para potamon ou enomizeto proseuch einai kai kaqisanteV elaloumen taiV sunelqousaiV gunaixin
Latin405VulgateDie autem sabbatorum egressi sumus foras portam iuxta flumen ubi videbatur oratio esse et sedentes loquebamur mulieribus quae convenerant
Middle English1395WyclifAnd in the dai of sabotis we wenten forth with out the yate bisidis the flood, where preier semyde to be; and we saten, and spaken to wymmen that camen togidere.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd on the saboth dayes we went out of the cite besydes a ryver where men were wont to praye and we sate doune and spake vnto the wemen which resorted thyther.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spoke to the women who resorted thither.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd on the Sabbath we went outside the town, by the river, where we had an idea that there would be a place of prayer; and, being seated, we had talk with the women who had come together.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: River

LanguageActs Chapter 16, Verse 13
AlbanianDitën e së shtunës dolëm jashtë qytetit anës lumit, ku ishte vendi i zakonshëm për lutje; dhe, si u ulëm, u flisnim grave që ishin mbledhur atje.
Cebuanoug sa pagkaadlaw nga igpapahulay nangadto kami sa gawas sa pultahan sa siyudad, sa daplin sa suba diin sa among paghunahuna didtoy dapit nga ampoanan; ug nanglingkod kami ug nakigsulti sa mga babaye nga nagkatigum didto.
CroatianU dan subotni iziðosmo izvan gradskih vrata k rijeci, gdje smo mislili da æe biti bogomolja. Sjedosmo i stadosmo govoriti okupljenim ženama.
DanishOg på Sabbatsdagen gik vi uden for Porten ved en Flod, hvor vi mente, at der var et Bedested", og vi satte os og talte til de Kvinder, som kom sammen.
DutchEn op den dag des sabbats gingen wij buiten de stad aan de rivier, waar het gebed placht te geschieden; en nedergezeten zijnde, spraken wij tot de vrouwen, die samengekomen waren.
FinnishJa sapatinpäivänä me menimme kaupungin portin ulkopuolelle, joen rannalle, jossa arvelimme olevan rukouspaikan, ja istuimme sinne ja puhuimme kokoontuneille naisille.
GermanAm Tage des Sabbats gingen wir hinaus vor die Stadt an das Wasser, da man pflegte zu beten, und setzten uns und redeten zu den Weibern, die da zusammenkamen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariPada hari Sabat kami pergi ke tepi sungai di luar pintu gerbang kota, sebab kami merasa di situ ada tempat sembahyang untuk orang Yahudi. Lalu kami duduk dan bercakap-cakap dengan wanita-wanita yang berkumpul di tempat itu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaPada hari Sabbat pergilah kami ke luar daripada pintu negeri ke tepi sungai, di situ kami sangkakan ada suatu tempat sembahyang, lalu duduklah kami serta bercakap-cakap dengan perempuan yang sudah berhimpun itu.
Italianil sabato uscimmo fuori della porta lungo il fiume, dove ritenevamo che si facesse la preghiera, e sedutici rivolgevamo la parola alle donne colà riunite.
LatvianTad sabata dienâ mçs izgâjâm ârpus vârtiem pie upes, kur, ðíiet, notika lûgðana; un apsçduðies mçs runâjâm ar sievietçm, kas tur bija sapulcçjuðâs.
MaoriNa i te ra hapati ka haere matou ki waho o te pa, ki te taha o tetahi awa, he whakaaro ko te wahi tera hei karakiatanga; a ka noho, ka korero ki nga wahine i haere tahi ake.
NorwegianPå sabbatsdagen gikk vi utenfor porten, til en elv hvor de pleide å samles til bønn, og vi satte oss der og talte til de kvinner som var kommet sammen.
PortugueseNo sábado saímos portas afora para a beira do rio, onde julgávamos haver um lugar de oração e, sentados, falávamos às mulheres ali reunidas.   
RumanianKn ziua Sabatului am iewit afarq pe poarta cetqyii, lkngq un rku, unde credeam cq se aflq un loc de rugqciune. Am wezut jos, wi am vorbit femeilor, cari erau adunate laolaltq.
ShuarNuyá Sáwartin tsawarmatai pepru ikiukir Entsá supichik wémiaji. Yus áujsatniun iruntrarmia nui pujusar, nuwa iruntrarmia nu Yus-Chicham ujakarmiaji.
SwahiliSiku ya Sabato tulitoka nje ya mji, tukaenda kando ya mto ambapo tulidhani ya kuwa ni mahali pa kusali. Tuliketi, tukaongea na wanawake waliokusanyika mahali hapo.
SwedishPå sabbatsdagen gingo vi utom stadsporten, längs med en flod, till en plats som gällde såsom böneställe. Där satte vi oss ned och talade med de kvinnor som hade samlats dit.
UmaHi Eo Sabat, hilou-kai hi po'ole halu' hi mali ngata, apa' ki'inca karia-na posampayaa-ra to Yahudi hi ria. Jadi', mohura-kai hante ba hangkuja dua tobine pai' kipololitai-ra.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: River

Derivations

Words beginning with "river": riverbank, riverbanks, riverbed, riverbeds, riverboat, riverboats, riverfront, riverfronts, riverine, rivers, riverside, riversides, riverward, riverwards. (additional references)

Words ending with "river": arriver, cabdriver, codriver, contriver, depriver, deriver, downriver, driver, nondriver, screwdriver, shriver, striver, thriver, upriver. (additional references)

Words containing "river": arrivers, cabdrivers, codrivers, contrivers, deprivers, derivers, driverless, drivers, nondrivers, screwdrivers, shrivers, strivers, thrivers, uprivers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"River" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aiver, ariver, Eivor, eivver, irev, Irve, iver, ivre, ivver, jiver, Krivoy, rafvr, raiva, ranveer, Ravar, ravier, Rayvern, reever, revar, revear, rever, Reveur, revre, riber, Ribero, rier, riever, Riler, Ritvo, rivar, Rivarel, rivea, rivem, rivera, rivere, riverful, rivi, rivia, rivie, rivier, rivo, rivor, Rivox, rivy, rizer, rovera, ryker, ryva, triver, virer, viver. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "River"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "river" (pronounced ri"ver)
4r i" v erdownriver, upriver.
3-i" v erdeliver, giver, liver, quiver, shiver, sliver.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: River

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-r-r-v"

-1 letter: rive, vier.

-2 letters: err, ire, rei, rev, vie.

-3 letters: er, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-r-r-v"
 

+1 letter: arrive, driver, reiver, riever, rivers, varier, verier.

 

+2 letters: arrived, arriver, arrives, brevier, curvier, deriver, drivers, griever, nervier, privier, redrive, reivers, reverie, reviler, reviser, revisor, reviver, rievers, riveter, riviera, riviere, shriver, striver, thriver, upriver, variers, vernier.

 

+3 letters: arrivers, averring, breviary, breviers, codriver, depriver, derivers, diverter, divorcer, driveler, forgiver, frivoler, grievers, groovier, improver, inverter, invertor, overgird, overgirt, overrich, override, overrife, overripe, overstir, overtire, overtrim, previsor, privater, provider, quiverer, ravisher, receiver, redriven, redrives, reliever, reovirus, reprieve, rereview, resilver, restrive, retrieve, reveries, reverify, revering, reviewer, revilers, revisers, revisors, revisory, revivers, riverbed, riverine, riveters, rivieras, rivieres, savorier, scurvier, servicer, servitor, shiverer, shrivers, silverer, sliverer, strivers, surviver, thrivers, tirrivee, uprivers, veratria, veratrin, verditer, verifier, verniers, viverrid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 		9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction 		13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Frequency 		17. Names: Derived from
18. Names: Company Usage
19. Cities
20. Expressions 		21. Expressions: Internet
22. Translations: Modern
23. Translations: Ancient
24. Bible Trace 		25. Abbreviations
26. Acronyms
27. Derivations
28. Rhymes 		29. Anagrams
30. Bibliography


  

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