River


Synonyms for river
noun waterway

tributary
estuary
stream
run

creek
brook
rivulet
course

watercourse
branch
rill
beck

runnel

Concept Thesaurus for word river
2. Fluid matter; fluids in motion
Synonyms – noun

running water.
squirt
rush
water spout
foss
Niagara
catadupe
deluge
rainfall
downpour
hyetology
mizzle
dropping
flux
defluxion
race
fount
gill
brooklet
burn
bayou
tributary.
flush
high tide
eagre
indraught
vortex
regurgitation
wave
ripple
ground swell
whitecaps
cross sea
[Science of fluids in motion] hydrodynamics
flowmeter
watering pot
garden hose
mussuk.

jet
spout
gush
water fall
lin
cataract
cataclysm
chute
serein
driving rain
hyetography
drizzle
falling weather.
flow
flowing
coulee.
fountain
gullet
branch [U.S.]
beck
stream
body of water
flood
full tide
hygre
reflux
gurge
overflow
billow
beach comber
surf
rough sea
long sea
hydraulics
pegology.
watering cart
lawn spray

spirt
spray
jet d’eau
cascade
linn
rapids
debacle
washout.
shower
drenching rain
predominance of Aquarius
stillicidum
stream
profluence
current
spring
rill
rillet
runnel
creek
river
torrent
swash
bore
fresh
undercurrent
whirlpool
confluence
surge
riffle [U.S.]
breakers
heavy sea
short sea
hydraulicostatics
irrigation (water)
hydrant
sprinkler

spurt
splash
sluice.
force
ghyll
white water
inundation
rain
scud
cloudburst
reign of St. Swithin
plash
course
effluence (egress)
tide
artesian well
rivulet
streamlet
sike
brook
reach
rapids
spring tide
tidal bore
freshet
eddy
Maelstrom
corrivation.
swell
rollers
white horses
high seas
chopping sea.
rain gauge
pump
syringe
bhisti

Synonyms – verbs

flow
pour
well
dribble
trickle
overflow
splash
babble
sputter
ooze
rain cats and dogs
spit
fall into
disembogue.
irrigate
[Stop a flow] stanch

run
spout
issue
plash
distill
inundate
swash
bubble
spurt
flow out (egress)[more]
rain pitchforks
set in
open into
[Cause a flow] pour
drench (wet)[more]
dam, up (close)

meander
roll
drop
spirtle
percolate
deluge
guggle
purl
spray
rain hard
pour with rain
mizzle.
drain into
pour out (discharge)
spill
obstruct

gush
jet
drip
trill
stream
flow over
murmur
gurgle
regurgitate
rain in torrents
drizzle
flow into
discharge itself
shower down
splash.

Synonyms – adjectives

fluent
tidal
meandrous
showery
stillatitious.

diffluent
flowing
fluvial
rainy

profluent
meandering
fluviaatile
pluvial

affluent
meandry
streamy
stillicidous

Synonyms – phrases
“for men may come and men may go but I go on forever” [Tennyson]; “that old man river, he just keeps rolling along” [Showboat]
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