river
See also: River
river - English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹɪvə/
- (General American) enPR: rĭv'ər, IPA: /ˈɹɪvɚ/
- Hyphenation: riv‧er
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.
- Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
- Synonyms: see river
- 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.
Usage notes
- As with the names of lakes and mountains, the names of rivers are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term: the River Thames or the Yangtze River. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives see river added to the end, as with the Yellow River. It is less common to add river before names than it is with lakes, but many of the rivers of Britain are written that way, as with the River Severn; indeed, British English tends to use "River X" in such cases while American, South African, Australian and New Zealand English use "X River". The former derives from the earlier but now uncommon form river of ~: the 19th century River of Jordan is now usually simply the River Jordan.
- It is common to preface the proper names of rivers with the article the.
- Concerning the reference of its coordinate terms, some people say: you can step over a brook, jump over a creek, wade across a stream, and swim across a river.
Derived terms
Terms derived from river (etymology 1, noun)
- Bear River
- cross the river
- cry someone a river
- Eagle River
- Elk River
- Fall River
- French River
- Green River
- Hay River
- Hood River
- Indian River
- Kansas River
- Klip River
- Little River
- lost river
- Mad River
- Mooi River
- Moose River
- Pearl River
- Powder River
- river basin
- river bed
- river birch
- river blindness
- river bottom
- river boulder
- river dolphin
- river duck (Anatinae)
- river hog (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
- river horse
- river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis)
- river limpet (Ancylus fluviatilis)
- river mouth
- river mussel (Unionidae)
- river otter
- river pear (Grias cauliflora)
- river prawn (Macrobrachium spp.)
- river runner
- river shad (Alosa chrysochloris, Gudusia spp.)
- river snail (Viviparidae)
- river water
- riverbank
- riverbed
- riverboat/river boat
- riverfront
- riverine
- riverside
- riverward
- riverway
- Rush River
- salmon river, Salmon River
- sell down the river
- St. Johns River
- submarine river
- Three Rivers
- Touws River
- up the river
- White River
- Yellow River
- English lemmas starting with river
Related terms
- tributary (noun)
Descendants
Translations
Verb
river (third-person singular simple present rivers, present participle rivering, simple 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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹaɪvə/
- (General American) IPA: /ˈɹaɪvɚ/
Noun
river (plural rivers)
river - Danish
Noun
river c
- indefinite plural of rive
Verb
river
- present of rive
river - Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈriʋer/, [ˈriʋe̞r]
- Syllabification: ri‧ver
Noun
river
Declension
| Inflection of river (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | river | riverit | ||
| genitive | riverin | riverien rivereiden rivereitten | ||
| partitive | riveriä | rivereitä riverejä | ||
| illative | riveriin | rivereihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | river | riverit | ||
| accusative | nom. | river | riverit | |
| gen. | riverin | |||
| genitive | riverin | riverien rivereiden rivereitten | ||
| partitive | riveriä | rivereitä riverejä | ||
| inessive | riverissä | rivereissä | ||
| elative | riveristä | rivereistä | ||
| illative | riveriin | rivereihin | ||
| adessive | riverillä | rivereillä | ||
| ablative | riveriltä | rivereiltä | ||
| allative | riverille | rivereille | ||
| essive | riverinä | rivereinä | ||
| translative | riveriksi | rivereiksi | ||
| instructive | — | riverein | ||
| abessive | riverittä | rivereittä | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Synonyms
river - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʁi.ve/
Verb
river
- to drive/set a rivet
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | river | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rivant /ʁi.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rivé /ʁi.ve/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | rive /ʁiv/ | rives /ʁiv/ | rive /ʁiv/ | rivons /ʁi.vɔ̃/ | rivez /ʁi.ve/ | rivent /ʁiv/ |
| imperfect | rivais /ʁi.vɛ/ | rivais /ʁi.vɛ/ | rivait /ʁi.vɛ/ | rivions /ʁi.vjɔ̃/ | riviez /ʁi.vje/ | rivaient /ʁi.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rivai /ʁi.ve/ | rivas /ʁi.va/ | riva /ʁi.va/ | rivâmes /ʁi.vam/ | rivâtes /ʁi.vat/ | rivèrent /ʁi.vɛʁ/ | |
| future | riverai /ʁi.vʁe/ | riveras /ʁi.vʁa/ | rivera /ʁi.vʁa/ | riverons /ʁi.vʁɔ̃/ | riverez /ʁi.vʁe/ | riveront /ʁi.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | riverais /ʁi.vʁɛ/ | riverais /ʁi.vʁɛ/ | riverait /ʁi.vʁɛ/ | riverions /ʁi.və.ʁjɔ̃/ | riveriez /ʁi.və.ʁje/ | riveraient /ʁi.vʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | rive /ʁiv/ | rives /ʁiv/ | rive /ʁiv/ | rivions /ʁi.vjɔ̃/ | riviez /ʁi.vje/ | rivent /ʁiv/ |
| imperfect2 | rivasse /ʁi.vas/ | rivasses /ʁi.vas/ | rivât /ʁi.va/ | rivassions /ʁi.va.sjɔ̃/ | rivassiez /ʁi.va.sje/ | rivassent /ʁi.vas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rive /ʁiv/ | — | rivons /ʁi.vɔ̃/ | rivez /ʁi.ve/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Anagrams
river - Latin
Verb
rīver
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of rīvō
river - Middle English
Noun
river
- Alternative form of ryver
river - Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
river m or f
- indefinite plural of rive
Verb
river
- present of rive
river - Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
river f
- indefinite plural of rive
Verb
river
- (non-standard since 2012) present tense of riva
river - Swedish
Verb
river
- present tense of riva.