OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3880

river

/ˈɹɪvɚ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
río
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.
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, w…
Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
río
Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
a river of blood
calle
A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
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