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rivulet

/ˈɹɪv.jʊ.lɪt/US/ˈɹɪv.jə.lət/

rivulet noun: a small stream; a streamlet; a gill.

rivulet: a small stream; a streamlet; a gill
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Noun

rivulet (plural rivulets)

  1. A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.
    • A rivulet of tears ran down his face.
    • Yes Madam I think you will like them—when you shall see in a beautiful Quarto Page how a neat rivulet of Text shall meander thro' a meadow of margin—'fore Gad, they will be the most elegant Things of their kind—1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i
    Synonyms:
    rill
  2. Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.

rivulet meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada

rivulet in Tamil

ஓடை, சிற்றாறு, சிற்றோடை

rivulet in Urdu

آبجو, نالا

rivulet in Telugu

a rivulet
కుల్య kulya, వంక vaṅka

rivulet in Kannada

ಸಣ್ಣಹೊಳೆ, ಕಿರುಹೊಳೆ, ತೊರೆ, ಝರಿ, ಹಳ್ಳ, ತೋಡು
More languagesFewer languages
rivulet in Tagalog
ilug-ilugan, pasalangi, sapa, saog

Examples of rivulet in a sentence

  • Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  • Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets.1945, Charles Cotton, Geomorphology: An Introduction to the Study of Landforms:

All 13 example sentences with rivulet

Synonyms of rivulet

Forms of rivulet

pluralrivulets

Origin of rivulet

From Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo (“trickle, little stream”), diminutive of rivo (“stream, brook, creek”), ultimately from Latin rīvulus, diminutive of rīvus. By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -ule + -et.

Words formed from rivulet

Phrases with rivulet

Questions about rivulet

What does rivulet mean?
Rivulet means a small stream; a streamlet; a gill.
What is rivulet in Tamil?
Rivulet in Tamil is ஓடை, சிற்றாறு, சிற்றோடை. See Rivulet meaning in Tamil.
How do you use rivulet in a sentence?
Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.
What part of speech is rivulet?
Rivulet is a noun.
How do you pronounce rivulet?
Rivulet is pronounced /ˈɹɪv.jʊ.lɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of rivulet?
The plural of rivulet is rivulets.

Words near rivulet in the dictionary

  1. Rivoli
  2. Rivonia
  3. rivose
  4. rivulariaceous
  5. rivularioid
  6. rivulet
  7. rivulets
  8. rivulid
  9. rivulids
  10. rivuline
  11. rivulose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rivulet (page history and authors); rivulet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rivulet (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కుల్య (Telugu) (page history and authors); rivulet (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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