fluviophile
fluviophile noun: a lover of rivers.
Noun
fluviophile (plural fluviophiles)
- A lover of rivers.
- Enough of this lecture on hydrography by a mere fluviophile. Is it because I was born on a river bank — the Potomac — of river valley ancestors — the Hudson — and grew up in Southern California in the halcyon years when the rivers ran wild in spring and spread over the plain; is it because of this...1976, Lawrence Clark Powell, “Desert, Mountains, and Rivers”, in From the Heartland: Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and Beyond, Flagstaff: Northland Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18
- Now I am a fluviophile, planning a book on Arizona in terms of its river systems.1977, Lawrence Clark Powell, “The Phoenix Has Risen—Now What?”, in The Journal of Arizona History, Arizona Historical Society, page 244
- Synonyms:
- potamophile
Examples of fluviophile in a sentence
- Enough of this lecture on hydrography by a mere fluviophile.1976, Lawrence Clark Powell, “Desert, Mountains, and Rivers”, in From the Heartland: Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and...
- An extreme example of the southern European rivers is Albania’s Semani River (a name perhaps recognized only by the most fervent fluviophile).2011, John D. Milliman, Katherine L. Farnsworth, “Runoff, erosion, and delivery to the coastal ocean”, in River Discharge to the Coastal...
- This is a book for fluviophiles, which is to say that this is a book for me.2020 May 1, David Aaronovitch, “Rivers of Power by Laurence C Smith review — how rivers made history”, in The Times:
- A self-confessed ‘fluviophile’, David Aaronovich in the Times found the book ‘instructive and entertaining on the subject of riparian disasters, natural and man-made.’2020 July, “Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations and Shapes Our World; Laurence C Smith; Allen...
Synonyms of fluviophile
Forms of fluviophile
| plural | fluviophiles |
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Origin of fluviophile
From Latin fluvius + -o- + -phile.
Questions about fluviophile
- What does fluviophile mean?
- Fluviophile means a lover of rivers.
- How do you use fluviophile in a sentence?
- Enough of this lecture on hydrography by a mere fluviophile.
- What part of speech is fluviophile?
- Fluviophile is a noun.
- What is the plural of fluviophile?
- The plural of fluviophile is fluviophiles.
Words near fluviophile in the dictionary
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