Rivers

[riv-erz]

noun

1. Larry Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg, 1923–2002, U.S. painter.

2. William Halse 1865–1922, English physiologist and anthropologist.

Rivers

/ ˈrɪvəz /

noun

1. a state of S Nigeria, in the Niger river delta on the Gulf of Guinea. Capital: Port Harcourt. Pop: 5 185 400 (2006). Area: 11 077 sq km (4277 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Drew Brees and Philip Rivers, along with Larry Fitzgerald, Jason Witten and Frank Gore have reached the semifinal stage for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.

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“You could smell the heavy loam in the deep cool woods—the Yazoo and Big Black rivers were running along,” she tells Lyell after an autumn drive through rural Mississippi in 1935.

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Helen Wakeham, chair of the National Drought Group said "recent rain is very welcome, but it needs to be sustained over the next six months...to fill up our rivers, reservoirs and groundwater levels".

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It maps the ports, rivers, railways and roads they would travel, and how they would be supplied and protected on the way.

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The government said its reforms to bathing water rules will help further, but campaigners said that swimming in England's rivers was still too often risky to health.

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Related Words

• estuary 
• stream 
• tributary