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Blue River

Blue River proper noun: a tributary of the Colorado River, Colorado, United States.

Proper noun

Blue River

  1. A tributary of the Colorado River, Colorado, United States.
  2. The four townships in Indiana, United States, listed under the Blue River Township.
  3. (archaic) The Yangtze river in China.
    • The rebels put the imperial garrisons to the sword—fifty thousand headless bodies were floating in the Blue River when Nanking fell.1977 [1973], Lucien Bodard, translated by Barbara Bray, The French Consul, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 51

Questions about Blue River

What does Blue River mean?
Blue River means a tributary of the Colorado River, Colorado, United States.
What part of speech is Blue River?
Blue River is a proper noun.

Words near Blue River in the dictionary

  1. Blue Ridge
  2. Blue Ridge A
  3. Blue Ridge B
  4. blue rinse
  5. blue rinses
  6. Blue River
  7. blue riverdamsel
  8. blue riverdamsels
  9. blue rock thrush
  10. blue rock thrushes
  11. Blue Rocks

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