POTOMAC RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Potomac River mean? 

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

1. a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POTOMAC RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Potomac; Potomac River

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Free State; Maryland; MD; Md.; Old Line State (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)

Mountain State; W.V.; West Virginia; WV (a state in east central United States)

 Context examples 

The area in the United States comprised of a 68 square mile area northeast of the Potomac River donated by the state of Maryland.

(District of Columbia, NCI Thesaurus)