WHITE RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does White River mean? 

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

1. a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

White; White River

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity (a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Missouri; MO; Mo.; Show Me State (a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union)

 Context examples 

“They told us we couldn’t make White River, and here we are.”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

With the dogs falling, Mercedes weeping and riding, Hal swearing innocuously, and Charles’s eyes wistfully watering, they staggered into John Thornton’s camp at the mouth of White River.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)