Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

Meramec

American  
[mer-uh-mak] / ˈmɛr əˌmæk /

noun

  1. a river in SE Missouri, flowing generally E to the Mississippi River below St. Louis. 207 miles (333 km) long.


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

I had a medium-brown driveway that used chert road metal from the Meramec River region in Missouri.

From Seattle Times Jun. 19, 2023

A new Corps plan for the Lower Meramec River, hit by three record floods since August 2015, endorses wetland restoration and property buyouts.

From Washington Times Apr. 28, 2020

Former state Sen. Wayne Goode says Sugerman worked with other activists to talk with lawmakers, convincing U.S. senators John Danforth, Tom Eagleton and Kit Bond to take a float trip down the Meramec.

From Washington Times Aug. 26, 2019

But the purchase put her children in public schools ranked among the top in the state, and the Meramec river was a whole two miles away.

From The Guardian Sep. 25, 2018

"A group of some 50 similar mounds is situated on the right bank of the Meramec, about 6 miles above its mouth, in Jefferson County."

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 12,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training