1. river - Noun
2. river - Verb
3. River - Proper noun
One who rives or splits.
A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
Source: Webster's dictionary"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come? To heretics where the fountain and river of water is in no way life-giving? Or to the Church, which is One? Cyprian
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. Marcus Aurelius
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Horace
There's a crocodile in every big river. Filipino Proverb
Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money. Native American Proverb
Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. Haitian Proverb