Definition of River

River One who rives or splits. A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook. Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil. To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl. Related Definitions: Abundance, And, Another, As, At, Bed, Blood, Brook, By, Channel, Copious, Emptying, Fig, Flow, Flowing, Fly, Fowl, Hawk, In, Into, Lake, Large, Ocean, Of, Oil, One, Or, River, Rivulet, Sea, Side, Stream, Than, The, To, Water, Who

River Quotations For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Kahlil Gibran Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. Mark Twain Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. Marcus Aurelius Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Blaise Pascal Love is the river of life in the world. Henry Ward Beecher You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. Paulo Coelho Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. Victor Hugo Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. Victor Hugo If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." Lyndon B. Johnson

River Translations river in Afrikaans is rivier river in Danish is flod river in Dutch is rivier, stroom river in Finnish is joki river in Italian is fiume, fluviale river in Latin is flumen river in Norwegian is elv, flod river in Portuguese is rio