MURRAY RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Murray River mean? 

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

1. a southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MURRAY RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Murray; Murray River

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)