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NEW RIVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does New River mean?
• NEW RIVER (noun)
The noun NEW RIVER has 1 sense:
1. a river in the southeastern United States that flows northward from North Carolina to West Virginia where it empties into the Kanawha River
Familiarity information: NEW RIVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A river in the southeastern United States that flows northward from North Carolina to West Virginia where it empties into the Kanawha River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("New River" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Context examples
“The ouse that I am stopping at—a sort of a private hotel and boarding ouse, Master Copperfield, near the New River ed—will have gone to bed these two hours.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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