English > river: 1 sense > noun 1, object| Meaning | A large natural stream of water (larger / larger than a creek). |
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| Example | "the river was navigable for 50 miles" |
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| Category of | bend, curve | curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) |
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| body of water, water | The part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) |
| channel | A deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger / larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels |
| confluence, meeting | A place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) |
| frontage | The extent of land abutting on a street or water |
| rejuvenate | Cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land |
| shore | The land along the edge of a body of water |
| Instances | Aare, Aar, Aare River | A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine |
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| Acheron, River Acheron | (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon |
| Adige, River Adige | A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea |
| Aire, River Aire, Aire River | A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire |
| Alabama, Alabama River | A river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery |
| Allegheny, Allegheny River | A river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River |
| Amazon, Amazon River | A major South American river |
| Amur, Amur River, Heilong Jiang, Heilong | An Asian river between China and Russia |
| Angara, Angara River, Tunguska, Upper Tunguska | A river in southeastern Siberia that flows northwest from Lake Baikal to become a tributary of the Yenisei River |
| Apalachicola, Apalachicola River | A river in northwestern Florida formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee River and the Flint River at the Florida border |
| Araguaia, Araguaia River, Araguaya, Araguaya River | A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River |
| Aras, Araxes | A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea |
| Arauca | A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela |
| Argun, Argun River, Ergun He | A river in eastern Asia that arises in China and flows northeast along the border between China and Russia to become a tributary of the Amur River |
| Arkansas, Arkansas River | A river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River |
| Arno, Arno River, River Arno | A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea |
| Avon, River Avon, Upper Avon, Upper Avon River | A river in central England that flows through Stratford-on-Avon and empties into the Severn |
| Avon, River Avon | A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn |
| Big Sioux River | A river that rises in northeastern South Dakota and flows southward to join the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa |
| Bighorn, Bighorn River | A river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana |
| Brahmaputra, Brahmaputra River | An Asian river |
| Brazos, Brazos River | A river that rises in Mexico and flows across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico |
| Caloosahatchee, Caloosahatchee River | A river in southern Florida that flows westerly to the Gulf of Mexico |
| Cam, River Cam, Cam River | A river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River |
| Canadian, Canadian River | A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma |
| Cape Fear River | A river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear |
| Chang Jiang, Changjiang, Chang, Yangtze, Yangtze River, Yangtze Kiang | The longest river of Asia |
| Chao Phraya | A river in Thailand formed by the confluence of the Nan and Ping Rivers |
| Charles, Charles River | A river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston |
| Chattahoochee, Chattahoochee River | A river rising in northern Georgia and flowing southwest and south to join the Flint River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River |
| Cimarron, Cimarron River | A river that rises in northeastern New Mexico and flows eastward into Oklahoma where it becomes a tributary of the Arkansas River |
| Clinch River | A river that rises in southwestern Virginia and flows generally southwestward across eastern Tennessee to the Tennessee River |
| Clyde | A river in western Scotland that flows from the southern uplands into the Firth of Clyde |
| Cocytus, River Cocytus | (Greek mythology) a river in Hades that was said to be a tributary of the Acheron |
| Colorado, Colorado River | An important river in the southwestern United States |
| Colorado, Colorado River | A river in Texas |
| Columbia, Columbia River | A North American river |
| Congo, Congo River, Zaire River | A major African river (one of the world's longest) |
| Connecticut, Connecticut River | A river in the northeastern United States |
| Coosa, Coosa River | river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River |
| Cumberland, Cumberland River | A river that rises in southeastern Kentucky and flows westward through northern Tennessee to become a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Kentucky |
| Danube, Danube River, Danau | The 2nd longest European river (after the Volga) |
| Darling, Darling River | An Australian river |
| Delaware, Delaware River | A river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay |
| Demerara | A river in northern Guyana that flows northward into the Atlantic |
| Detroit River | A short river flowing from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie along the border between the United States and Canada |
| Dnieper, Dnieper River | A river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea |
| Don, Don River | A European river in southwestern Russia |
| Ebro, Ebro River | A river in northeastern Spain |
| Elbe, Elbe River | A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea |
| Elizabeth River | A short river in southeastern Virginia flowing between Norfolk and Portsmouth into Hampton Roads |
| Euphrates, Euphrates River | A river in southwestern Asia |
| Flint, Flint River | A river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River |
| Forth, Forth River | A river in southern Scotland that flows eastward to the Firth of Forth |
| Fox River | A river in Wisconsin that flows into Lake Michigan |
| Gan Jiang, Kan River | A river in southeastern China that flows generally north into the Chang Jiang to the north of Nanchang |
| Ganges, Ganges River | An Asian river |
| Garonne, Garonne River | A river that rises in the Pyrenees and flows northwest to the Bay of Biscay |
| Gila, Gila River | A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River |
| Grand River | A river in southern Michigan that flows northwest to empty into Lake Michigan |
| Green, Green River | A river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River |
| Housatonic, Housatonic River | A river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound |
| Huang He, Hwang Ho, Yellow River | A major river of Asia in northern China |
| Hudson, Hudson River | A New York river |
| IJssel, IJssel river | A river in the central Netherlands flowing north to the IJsselmeer |
| Illinois River | A river in Illinois that flows southwest to the Mississippi River |
| Indigirka, Indigirka River | A river in far eastern Siberia that flows generally northward to the Arctic Ocean |
| Indus, Indus River | An Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea |
| Irrawaddy, Irrawaddy River | The main river of Myanmar rising in the north and flowing south through the length of Burma to empty into the Andaman Sea |
| Irtish, Irtish River, Irtysh, Irtysh River | An Asian river that rises in the Altai Mountains in northern China and flows generally northwest to become a tributary of the Ob River |
| Isere, Isere River | A river in southeastern France |
| James, James River | A river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri |
| James, James River | A river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads |
| Jordan, Jordan River | A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea |
| Kanawha, Kanawha River | A tributary of the Ohio River in West Virginia |
| Kansas, Kansas River, Kaw River | A river in northeastern Kansas |
| Kasai, Kasai River, River Kasai | A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo |
| Kissimmee, Kissimmee River | A river of central Florida that flows southward to Lake Okeechobee |
| Klamath, Klamath River | A river flowing southwest from Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean |
| Kura, Kura River | A river in western Asia |
| Lehigh River | A river in eastern Pennsylvania that flows southeast into the Delaware River |
| Lena, Lena River | A Russian river in Siberia |
| Lethe, River Lethe | (Greek mythology) a river in Hades |
| Limpopo, Crocodile River | An African river |
| Little Bighorn, Little Bighorn River, Little Horn | A river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana |
| Little Missouri, Little Missouri River | A river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota |
| Little Sioux River | A river that rises in southwestern Minnesota and flows southwestward to the Missouri River in western Iowa |
| Little Wabash, Little Wabash River | A river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the Wabash River |
| Loire, Loire River | The longest French river |
| Mackenzie, Mackenzie River | A Canadian river |
| Madeira, Madeira River | A Brazilian river |
| Magdalena, Magdalena River | A river that rises in the Andes mountains in southwestern Colombia and flows generally northward to empty into the Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla |
| Mekong, Mekong River | An Asian river |
| Merrimack, Merrimack River | A river that rises in south central New Hampshire and flows through Concord and Manchester into Massachusetts and empties into the Atlantic Ocean |
| Meuse, Meuse River | A European river |
| Milk, Milk River | A river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River |
| Mississippi, Mississippi River | A major North American river and the chief river of the United States |
| Missouri, Missouri River | The longest river in the United States |
| Mobile, Mobile River | A river in southwestern Alabama |
| Mohawk River | A river of central New York that flows southeastward to the Hudson River |
| Monongahela, Monongahela River | A river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River |
| Moreau River | A river that rises in western South Dakota and flows eastward to the Missouri River |
| Murray, Murray River | A southeast Australian river |
| Murrumbidgee, Murrumbidgee River | A river of southeastern Australia |
| Namoi, Namoi River | A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River |
| Nan, Nan River | A river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya |
| Neckar, Neckar River | A river in Germany |
| Neosho, Neosho River | A river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows eastward into Oklahoma to become a tributary of the Arkansas River |
| Neva, Neva River | A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland |
| New River | A river in the southeastern United States that flows northward from North Carolina to West Virginia where it empties into the Kanawha River |
| Niagara, Niagara River | A river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario |
| Niger, Niger River | An African river |
| Nile, Nile River | The world's longest river (4150 miles) |
| Niobrara, Niobrara River | A tributary of the Missouri River |
| North Platte, North Platte River | A river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River |
| Ob, Ob River | A major river of western Siberia |
| Oder, Oder River | A European river |
| Ohio, Ohio River | A river that is formed in western Pennsylvania and flows westward to become a tributary of the Mississippi River |
| Orange, Orange River | A river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean |
| Orinoco, Orinoco River | A South American river 1,500 miles long |
| Osage, Osage River | A river in Missouri that is a tributary of the Missouri River |
| Ouachita, Ouachita River | A river that rises in western Arkansas and flows southeast into eastern Louisiana to become a tributary of the Red River |
| Ouse, Ouse River | A river in northeastern England that flows generally southeastward to join the Trent River and form the Humber |
| Outaouais, Ottawa, Ottawa river | A river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal |
| Parana, Parana River | A South American river |
| Parnaiba, Parnahiba | A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean |
| Pearl River | A river in Mississippi that flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico |
| Pecos, Pecos River | A tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas |
| Pee Dee, Pee Dee River | A river that flows through central North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean |
| Penobscot, Penobscot River | A river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay |
| Ping, Ping River | A river in western Thailand |
| Platte, Platte River | A river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River |
| Po, Po River | A European river |
| Potomac, Potomac River | A river in the east central United States |
| Purus, Purus River | A Brazilian river |
| Rappahannock, Rappahannock River | A river that flows across eastern Virginia into the Tidewater region |
| Red, Red River | A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana |
| Republican, Republican River | A tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas |
| Rhine, Rhine River, Rhein | A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world |
| Rhone, Rhone River | A major French river |
| Rio Grande, Rio Bravo | A North American river |
| Ruhr, Ruhr River | A tributary of the Rhine |
| Russian River | A river in northern California |
| Saale, Saale River | A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River |
| Sabine, Sabine River | A river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico |
| Sacramento River | A river in northern California rising near Mount Shasta and flowing south to the San Francisco Bay |
| Saint Francis, Saint Francis River, St. Francis, St. Francis River | A tributary of the Mississippi River that rises in Missouri and flows southeastward through Arkansas |
| Saint John, Saint John River, St. John, St. John River | A river that rises in Maine and flows northeastward through New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy |
| Saint Johns, Saint Johns River, St. Johns, St. Johns River | A river in northeastern Florida that flows northward to Jacksonville and then eastward to empty into the Atlantic Ocean |
| Saint Lawrence, Saint Lawrence River, St. Lawrence, St. Lawrence River | A North American river |
| Salmon, Salmon River | A tributary of the Snake River in Idaho |
| Sambre, Sambre River | A river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Meuse at Namur |
| San Joaquin River | A river in central California that rises in the Sierra Nevada and flows northwest to form a large delta with the Sacramento River |
| Sao Francisco | A river in eastern Brazil flowing into the Atlantic Ocean |
| Saone, Saone River | A river in eastern France |
| Savannah, Savannah River | A river in South Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic |
| Scheldt, Scheldt River | A river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea |
| Seine, Seine River | A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel |
| Severn, River Severn, Severn River | A river in England and Wales flowing into the Bristol Channel |
| Severn, Severn River | A river in Ontario that flows northeast into Hudson Bay |
| Seyhan, Seyhan River | A Turkish river flowing south southwest into the Mediterranean |
| Shari, Shari River, Chari, Chari River | An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad |
| Shenandoah River | A river of northern Virginia that empties into the Potomac at Harpers Ferry |
| Snake, Snake River | A tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward |
| South Platte, South Platte River | A tributary of the Platte River |
| Styx, River Styx | (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls |
| Sun River | A river in western Montana that flows south and east to join the Missouri River |
| Suriname River, Surinam River | A river in Suriname that flows northward to the Atlantic |
| Susquehanna, Susquehanna River | A river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay |
| Tagus, Tagus River | A European river |
| Tallapoosa, Tallapoosa River | river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River |
| Tennessee, Tennessee River | A river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville |
| Thames, River Thames, Thames River | The longest river in England |
| Tiber, Tevere | A river of central Italy |
| Tigris, Tigris River | An Asian river |
| Tocantins, Tocantins River | A river in eastern Brazil that flows generally north to the Para River |
| Tombigbee, Tombigbee River | A river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River |
| Trent, River Trent, Trent River | A river in central England that flows generally northeastward to join with the Ouse River and form the Humber |
| Trinity River | A river in eastern Texas that is formed near Dallas and flows generally southeastward to Galveston Bay |
| Tunguska, Lower Tunguska | A river that arises to the north of Lake Baikal and flows north and west to the Yenisei River |
| Tunguska, Stony Tunguska | A river in Siberia that flows northwest to become a tributary of the Yenisei River |
| Tyne, River Tyne, Tyne River | A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea |
| Uruguay River | A South American river that arises in southern Brazil and flows south to the Rio de la Plata |
| Vetluga, Vetluga River | A river in central Russia |
| Vistula, Vistula River | A European river |
| Volga, Volga River | A Russian river |
| Volkhov, Volkhov River | A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally north into Lake Ladoga |
| Volta | A river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin |
| Wabash, Wabash River | A tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana |
| Weser, Weser River | A river in northwestern Germany that flows northward to the North Sea near Bremerhaven |
| White, White River | A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri |
| Willamette, Willamette River | A river in western Oregon that flows north into the Columbia River near Portland |
| Wisconsin, Wisconsin River | A tributary of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin |
| Yalu, Yalu River | river in eastern Asia |
| Yazoo, Yazoo River | A river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg |
| Yellowstone, Yellowstone River | A tributary of the Missouri River that flows through the Yellowstone National Park |
| Yenisei, Yenisei River, Yenisey, Yenisey River | A Russian river in Siberia |
| Yukon, Yukon River | A North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea |
| Zambezi, Zambezi River | An African river |
| Zhu Jiang, Canton River, Chu Kiang, Pearl River | A river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea |
| Part of | water system | A river and all of its tributaries |
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| Parts | estuary | The wide part of a river where it nears the sea |
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| rapid | A part of a river where the current is very fast |
| waterfall, falls | A steep descent of the water of a river |
| Broader | stream, watercourse | A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth |
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| Spanish | río, ríos |
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| Catalan | riu |
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| Adjectives | fluvial | of or relating to or happening / happening in a river |
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