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riva

riva noun: a rift or cleft.

Noun

riva

  1. A rift or cleft.

Proper noun capitalized: Riva

Riva (plural Rivas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of riva

pluralRivas

Origin of riva

From Italian, Catalan, and Spanish surname for someone who lives near a shore, from riva (“shore”).

Questions about riva

What does riva mean?
Riva means a rift or cleft.
What part of speech is riva?
Riva can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near riva in the dictionary

  1. riuer
  2. riuers
  3. Riukiu
  4. riv'n
  5. riv.
  6. riva
  7. rivabirin
  8. rivadavite
  9. Rivadeneira
  10. Rivadeneiras
  11. rivage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: riva (page history and authors); Riva (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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