YELLOW RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yellow River mean? 

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

1. a major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLOW RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Huang He; Hwang Ho; Yellow River

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)

 Context examples 

Denotes a person having origins in any of the original Hmong people originating in China around the Yellow River or Hoang Ho.

(Hmong, NCI Thesaurus)