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"

Matched Categories

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. Michael Brown:

   Since that time, restoration projects on the Penobscot River and many smaller rivers now allow river herring to access traditional spawning habitat, a result of the restoration activities is the expanding river herring resources we are seeing in Maine today.

2. Prem Rawat:

   To be quenched by this beautiful river that runs through you, all you have to do is turn within

3. Davenport Mayor Mike Matson:

   This is a conversation that a lot of people are used to having you know, especially some of our old-timers have been dealing with this a long time and they get it. We have people that live along the river and when the flood comes, they boat in and out.

4. Kazimierz Albin:

   It was a starry night, around minus 8 or minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 or 17 Fahrenheit) outside, we took our clothes off and were halfway across the Sola River when I heard the siren... Ice floes surrounded us.

5. Steve Hamilton:

   If you just have a liter (of water) down in the bottom of a boat and put it on a trailer and travel over land to a new river system, you could be injecting potentially hundreds or even thousands of microscopic larvae into a new water body.