Meaning

5 senses
  1. 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.

    Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.

    Fluss, Strom

    река́reká, ре́чкаréčka

    ріка́riká, рі́чкаríčka

  2. Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

    a river of blood

    Strom

    река́reká

    ріка́riká

  3. The last card dealt in a hand.

  4. A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

    Gießbach

    коридорkoridor

  5. One who rives or splits.

More definitions
  • a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)

Examples

2088 sentences
  1. Our school is across the river.

    Наша школа знаходиться на тому боці річки.

    ruНаша школа находится за рекой.

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  2. The river runs through the valley.

    Річка тече через долину.

    ruРека течет по долине.

    deDer Fluss fließt durch das Tal.

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  3. This river runs through my village.

    Ця річка тече через моє село.

    ruЭта река течёт через мою деревню.

    deDieser Fluss fließt durch mein Dorf.

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  4. I crossed the river by boat.

    Я переправився через річку на човні.

    ruЯ переправился через реку на лодке.

    deIch überquerte den Fluss per Schiff.

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  5. I enjoyed swimming in the river.

    Мені сподобалося плавати в річці.

    ruЯ наслаждался плаванием в реке.

    deEs hat mir Spaß gemacht, im Fluss zu schwimmen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
large stream which drains a landmass:
Русский
By meaning 2
large stream which drains a landmass:
typography: visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
large stream which drains a landmass:
typography: visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page:

Origin

From Middle English ryver, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria (“l

From Middle English ryver, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria (“littoral, riverbank”), from Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Unrelated to Latin rīvus (“stream”) (whence rival, derive). Doublet of riviera and rivière. Displaced native Old English ēa.

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