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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The bank of a river.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the bank of a river

Examples

  • “I still fail to see how being trained to rescue someone from a riverbank translates into diving into a cold river in which you can't see, swim down to a car that you only have a vague idea of its location, and rescue someone who may or may not be in the car and may or may not already be daed.”

    Army Rumour Service

  • “Conditions at the riverbank were a shared experience.”

    Simon & Schuster: Colossus

  • “Close by the riverbank are the historic garden and house of Carl Linnaeus.”

    The Constant Gardener

  • “Let us break our apples upon the riverbank, which is Lethe, we cannot remember her - and her cheek is bruised from the fall.”

    Fictionaut: THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems

  • “Spate irrigation is called Deschek irrigation and it also includes the areas along the riverbanks, which are often called riverbank farms (5-100 meters (m) from river).”

    Water profile of Somalia

  • “That sleeping bag on the riverbank will be a horrible place.”

    A Rare Rant

  • “Here, the riverbank was a web of barbed wire with a minefield on the East German side.”

    Berlin Game

  • “Standing on the riverbank was a frantic dog who clearly had no interest in being abandoned in Lago Agrio.”

    Simon & Schuster: One River

  • “In the memories of the young man you captured on the riverbank was a prominent vision of an important time in his life, his recent initiation into the Verdant Company.”

    Villains by Necessity

  • “The riverbank was a popular gathering spot for teenagers then and Donna, friends said, would sometimes hang out there.”

    Columnist: Keith Groller

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