Word.ws English Dictionary

riverain

riverain adjective: of or pertaining to rivers or their surrounding environments.

Adjective

riverain (comparative more riverain, superlative most riverain)

  1. Of or pertaining to rivers or their surrounding environments.
    • Some fourteen years later the company obtained from Congress authority to reclaim a large area of riverain land on which to construct its terminus and yard, but it was not until July, 1912, that trains ran into its present Buenos Aires terminus, Retiro Station.1943 September and October, “Notes and News: B.A.P.R. Diamond Jubilee”, in Railway Magazine, page 307

Noun

riverain (plural riverains)

  1. A person who lives beside a river.
    • But, in the eyes of the riverains, the coup threatened not just Bashir—the North's historical domination of power and wealth in Sudan stood in the balance.2016, Philip Roessler, Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa, page 169

Forms of riverain

Adjective
comparativemore riverain
superlativemost riverain
Noun
pluralriverains

Origin of riverain

Borrowed from French riverain.

Questions about riverain

What does riverain mean?
Riverain means of or pertaining to rivers or their surrounding environments.
What part of speech is riverain?
Riverain can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near riverain in the dictionary

  1. river-waters
  2. river-way
  3. river-ways
  4. Rivera
  5. riverage
  6. riverain
  7. riverains
  8. riverbank
  9. riverbanker
  10. riverbankers
  11. riverbanks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: riverain (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “riverain.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/riverain. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.