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riverrun

riverrun noun: the course a river shapes through a landscape.

Noun

riverrun (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural) The course a river shapes through a landscape

Origin of riverrun

From Finnegans Wake, a novel written by James Joyce. First sentence of the novel: Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

Questions about riverrun

What does riverrun mean?
Riverrun means the course a river shapes through a landscape.
What part of speech is riverrun?
Riverrun is a noun.

Words near riverrun in the dictionary

  1. riverplain
  2. riverplains
  3. Riverpoint
  4. riverport
  5. riverports
  6. riverrun
  7. rivers
  8. Rivers State
  9. riverscape
  10. riverscapes
  11. riverside

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