river
Meanings
Plural: rivers
Noun
- a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
- "the river was navigable for 50 miles"
- 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.
- One who rives or splits.
Verb
- To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
anabranch, arroyo, bayou, beck, bogan, bogue, bourn, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, burnlet, coulee, creek, crick, distributary, drain, draw, ea, eau, fork, fresh, freshet, gill, intermediate size or small, kill, lake [⇒ thesaurus] "stream of running water", large, letch, lick, nahal, nailbourne, or unsorted, outlet, prong, pup, rhine, rill, rindle, rine, rith, rithe, rito, river, rivulet, run, runlet, runnel, sike, sitch, stream, streamlet, tributary, wadi, wash, winterbourne
Scrabble Score: 8
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