River
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English
Etymology
From river.
Proper noun
River (countable and uncountable, plural Rivers)
- A unisex given name.
- 2002 December 13, Joss Whedon, Firefly, season 1, episode 14, Objects in Space:
- Wash: Little River gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next?
- Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up.
- Wash: I hope she does the soup thing, it's always a hoot and we don't all die from it.
- 2011 April 30, Steven Moffat, Doctor Who, series 6, episode 2, Day of the Moon:
- The Doctor: Oh, this is my friend River. Nice hair, clever, and has her own gun. And unlike me, she really doesn't mind shooting people. I shouldn't like that. Kinda do, a bit.
- 2017, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 131:
- Apparently, early in the day, a journalist had decided to bring up his brother River Phoenix's death in his interview, which threw him off and trainwrecked the day for everyone, including me.
- 2002 December 13, Joss Whedon, Firefly, season 1, episode 14, Objects in Space:
- (rare) A surname.
- A place name:
- A suburban village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2943). [1]
- A hamlet in Tillington parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9322).
- A township in Red Lake County, Minnesota, United States.