Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to rivers; resembling rivers.
- Abounding in rivers: as, a rivery district.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having rivers.
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- adjective Having
rivers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I liked the start of it, especially the voice: set on the Mississippi River and full of "rivery" moments (the novels 'term for magic occurrences, like the appearance of trolls, fairies, etc.)
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2006
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The soil beneath my bare legs was still warm from the heat of the day, and the air was cool and rivery and smoky dense with the fires of the distant compound.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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The soil beneath my bare legs was still warm from the heat of the day, and the air was cool and rivery and smoky dense with the fires of the distant compound.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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Wood smoke; biscuits baking; the cool, rivery smell of dew.
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Connecticut -- which State in general, with the city of Hartford in particular, hung as a hazy, fruity, rivery background, the very essence of Indian summer, in the rear of their discourse.
A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879
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are you kidding me im sure they meant a local rivery... and griffin running over griffin? how often does this happen?
latimes.com - News 2011
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** And ic ihail come to pafs, in that day, that the Lord Ihall hi/s for the fiy that is in the littermoft part of the rivery pf Egypt, "— * « And they
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1790
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