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river-way

river-way is the alternative form of riverway.

Meaning of riverway

Noun

riverway (plural riverways)

  1. The segment of a river or route on a river which is traversed by watercraft.
    • "That is the boat of Captain Hyde. What comes he this way for?"
      "The river way is free to all, Joanna."1886, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 3, in The Bow of Orange Ribbon

Forms of river-way

pluralriver-ways

Questions about river-way

What is river-way the alternative form of?
River-way is the alternative form of riverway.

Words near river-way in the dictionary

  1. river-runners
  2. river-walk
  3. river-walks
  4. river-water
  5. river-waters
  6. river-way
  7. river-ways
  8. Rivera
  9. riverage
  10. riverain
  11. riverains

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Adapted from Wiktionary: river-way (page history and authors); riverway (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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