Usually means: Natural watercourse, flows towards ocean.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. river: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. river: Merriam-Webster
  3. river: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. river: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. river, the river: Collins English Dictionary
  6. river: Vocabulary.com
  7. River, river: Wordnik
  8. river: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. River, river: Wiktionary
  10. river: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. river: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. river: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. river: Dictionary.com
  14. river: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. river: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. River: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. river: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. river: Rhymezone
  20. river: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. river: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. RIVER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. river: FreeDictionary.org
  24. river: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. river: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. river: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. River: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. River: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. river: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. river: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. River: Easton Bible
  2. River: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. river: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. river, the river: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. River: Dan's Poker
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  3. River: Gambling Glossary
  4. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. River: Poker Terms

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See rivering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
noun:  (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
noun:  (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
verb:  (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
noun:  One who rives or splits.
noun:  A unisex given name.
noun:  (rare) A surname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A suburban village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2943).
noun:  A hamlet in Tillington parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9322).
noun:  A township in Red Lake County, Minnesota, United States.

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