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river bed

river bed is the alternative form of riverbed.

Meaning of riverbed

Noun

riverbed (plural riverbeds)

  1. The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
    • Near-synonyms: streambed, creekbed

Forms of river bed

pluralriver beds

Questions about river bed

What is river bed the alternative form of?
River bed is the alternative form of riverbed.

Words near river bed in the dictionary

  1. river ash
  2. river bank
  3. river banks
  4. river basin
  5. river basins
  6. river bed
  7. river beds
  8. River Bend
  9. river birch
  10. river birches
  11. river blindness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: river bed (page history and authors); riverbed (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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