river
see also: River
Pronunciation Noun
River
Proper noun
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see also: River
Pronunciation Noun
river (plural rivers)
- 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.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- 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.
- Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
- a river of blood
(poker) The last card dealt in a hand. - (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
- tributary (noun)
river (rivers, present participle rivering; past and past participle rivered)
- (poker) 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.
river (plural rivers)
River
Proper noun
- A unisex given name.
- 2002 December 13, Joss Whedon, Firefly, season 1, episode 14, Objects in Space:
- 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.
- 2011 April 30, Steven Moffat, Doctor Who, series 6, episode 2, Day of the Moon:
- The Doctor: Oh, this is my friend River. Nice hair, clever, and has her own gun. And unlike me, she really doesn't mind shooting people. I shouldn't like that. Kinda do, a bit.
- 2017, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan (ISBN 9781250026200), page 131:
- Apparently, early in the day, a journalist had decided to bring up his brother River Phoenix's death in his interview, which threw him off and trainwrecked the day for everyone, including me.
- 2002 December 13, Joss Whedon, Firefly, season 1, episode 14, Objects in Space:
- (rare) Surname
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