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River
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- 1 A unisex given name. countable, uncountable
"Wash: Little River gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing, it's always a hoot and we don't all die from it."
- 2 A surname. countable, rare, uncountable
- 3 A place name:; A suburban village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2943). countable, uncountable
- 4 A place name:; A hamlet in Tillington parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9322). countable, uncountable
- 5 A place name:; A township in Red Lake County, Minnesota, United States. countable, uncountable
- 1 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.
"Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods."
- 2 One who rives or splits.
- 3 a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) wordnet
- 4 Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
"a river of blood"
- 5 The last card dealt in a hand.
"He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river."
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- 6 A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
- 1 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
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.
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.
From rive + -er.
From river.
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