River

Quick meaning: River is a noun meaning Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

Meaning

Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

More Meanings

1. (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
2. (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
3. One who rives or splits.
4. 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.
5. (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

Example Sentences

a river of blood

Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.

Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.

He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river.

Word Forms

• rivers
• rivering
• rivered

Synonyms for river

Depending on context, synonyms include large, small, brooklet, burnlet, ree, rill.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include riverbed, watershed, estuary, catchment, fluvial, watercourse.

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