ORINOCO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Orinoco mean? 

• ORINOCO (noun)
  The noun ORINOCO has 1 sense:

1. a South American river 1,500 miles long; flows into the South Atlantic

  Familiarity information: ORINOCO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORINOCO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A South American river 1,500 miles long; flows into the South Atlantic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Orinoco; Orinoco River

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Orinoco" is a part of...):

Colombia; Republic of Colombia (a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language)

Republic of Venezuela; Venezuela (a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil)

 Context examples 

Professor Challenger answered that Mr. Summerlee appeared to be confusing the Amazon with the Thames; that it was in reality a somewhat larger river; that Mr. Summerlee might be interested to know that with the Orinoco, which communicated with it, some fifty thousand miles of country were opened up, and that in so vast a space it was not impossible for one person to find what another had missed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)