Dictionary
river
Meaning
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- 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.
- Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
- The last card dealt in a hand.
- A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
Hyphenated as
riv‧er
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɹɪvə/
Cognate with Latin
rīvus
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