MACKENZIE RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mackenzie River mean? 

• MACKENZIE RIVER (noun)
  The noun MACKENZIE RIVER has 1 sense:

1. a Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea

  Familiarity information: MACKENZIE RIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MACKENZIE RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Mackenzie; Mackenzie River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Mackenzie River" is a part of...):

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

They went down the valley of the stream, far beyond White Fang's widest ranging, until they came to the end of the valley, where the stream ran into the Mackenzie River.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They did not remain in one place, but travelled across country until they regained the Mackenzie River, down which they slowly went, leaving it often to hunt game along the small streams that entered it, but always returning to it again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The she-wolf, the young leader on her left, and the one-eyed elder on her right, led their half of the pack down to the Mackenzie River and across into the lake country to the east. Each day this remnant of the pack dwindled.

(White Fang, by Jack London)