Noun: river
| Singular | river |
| Plural | rivers |
Sample Sentences
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Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
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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. [1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:]
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Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge. [2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:]
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a river of blood
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He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river. [2017, Nathan Schwiethale, Ace High: Mastering Low Stakes Poker Cash Games, page 70:]
Nouns inflected like river
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
ryver', Latin Nouns '
rīpārius', Latin Nouns '
rīpa', Latin Nouns '
rīvus'.
Verbs referencing "river"
Finnish Nouns
river, German Nouns
Revier.