Synonyms for RIVER
ˈrɪv ərriv·er

Princeton's WordNet

1. rivernoun

   a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)

   "the river was navigable for 50 miles"

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1. • Stream
   • Water System

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1. rivernoun

   Synonyms:
   stream

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1. rivernoun

   Associated words:
   potamology, potamography, riparian, riparious, fluvial, levee, wady, estuary, fluviatic, fluviatile, bayou, pothole, dredge, fluvicoline, fluviograph, fluviometer, crevasse, anadron, tributary, embouchure, barrage

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1. List of paraphrases for "river":

   rivière, rivers, rio, fleuve, fluvial, riverine, riviã, ho, hydrographic, fluss, st., riverbank, stream, nahr, revere, ríos, crick, creek, rivières, water, waterway, upe

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1. John Mukum Mbaku:

   The Nile River Basin's upstream riparian states argue that The Nile Waters Agreements are unfair, inequitable and unsustainable.

2. Gavin Naylor:

   The river sharks are particularly mysterious, they are archetypal, typical looking sharks like a great reef or bull shark. They sort of look like that but they have tiny little eyes and big broad fins.

3. Kailey Chambers:

   She injured her head on a tree, she was very disoriented as a result and thankfully ended up near a water source -- a river bed. She thought her best chance of survival was to stay next to a water source.

4. Ryan Flynn:

   This river literally feeds us and helps the economy in this region.

5. Friday Morawiecki:

   The scale of this pollution is very big. So big that the Oder may take years to return to a fairly normal state, it is likely that enormous amounts of chemical waste have been dumped into the river.