What does a river mean?

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a riv·er

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  1. A River

    A River is a sculpture created by Jean-Jacques Caffieri in 1759.

Editors Contribution

  1. a riveradjective

    A body of water

    A river flows in a specific direction towards the sea


    Submitted by MaryC on March 25, 2024  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of a river in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of a river in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of a river in a Sentence

  1. Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter:

    These companies are actually pretty savvy in that they come out West, purchase and pick up cheap rural agricultural land, they sit on it for a little while and then they’re trying to sell Colorado River water, i do n’t think that they should be allowed to profiteer off of Arizona’s finite resources … If they’re coming after a portion of our only water supply on the river for many of our communities, we have to fight it.

  2. Japanese Proverb, Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun:

    If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

  3. Christopher Pyne:

    Suddenly, there will be literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions of tonnes of carp that will be dead in the River Murray.

  4. Kelly Clarkson:

    I just hope [River Rose] finds love, it took me a while, man. And there was a lot of heartache throughout those years. You know, as long as she’s happy, I don’t care either way, and neither does my husband. And we have two other kids as well, and we don’t care either way for all of them.

  5. Oksana Miraevska:

    If something happens with the power plant, some accident ... I can't think about that. Do you think something could help us? We are 7 kilometers from the nuclear power plant across the river! Nothing will save us, I'm sure, that's why I don't even entertain that thought.


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