Thesaurus:river
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: natural watercourse
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- large
- intermediate size or small, or unsorted
- arroyo
- bayou
- beck
- bogan
- bogue
- bourn
- branch, anabranch
- brook
- brooklet
- burn [⇒ thesaurus]
- burnlet
- coulee
- creek
- crick
- distributary
- drain
- draw
- ea, eau
- fork
- fresh
- freshet
- gill
- kill [⇒ thesaurus]
- lake [⇒ thesaurus] "stream of running water" (now uncommon in this sense)
- letch
- lick
- nahal (Israeli wadi)
- nailbourne
- outlet
- prong
- pup (feeder stream in Alaska)
- rill (smallest stream)
- rine, rhine
- rindle
- rith, rithe
- rito
- rivulet
- run [⇒ thesaurus]
- runlet
- runnel
- sike
- sitch
- stream [⇒ thesaurus]
- streamlet
- tributary
- wadi
- wash
- winterbourne
Hypernyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Meronyms
[edit]Various
[edit]Content of a river
Nearby objects
- riverbend
- riverbank
- riverbed
- riverfront
- valley [⇒ thesaurus]
- canyon
- glen
- gorge
- strath
- drainage basin
- confluence
- channel
- floodplain
- riverplain
- anabranch
- billabong
- oxbow lake
Animals living in river
- fish [⇒ thesaurus]
- amphibian [⇒ thesaurus]
- muskrat
- river dolphin
- Amazon River dolphin
- baiji
- pink river dolphin
- tucuxi
Events
Structures
Rivercraft
People around river
Fields
Adjectives
Instances
[edit]10 longest rivers
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “river” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- "river" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
- Wikidata:river
River on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - List of river systems by length on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Glossary of geography terms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- International glossary of hydrology, library.wmo.int
