DOWN-RIVER


Meaning of DOWN-RIVER in English

also downriver

Something that is moving ~ is moving towards the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is ~ is towards the mouth of a river.

By 09.30 we had cast off and were heading ~.

...a big tourist hotel a few hundred yards ~...

Cologne is not so very far ~ from Mainz.

? up-river

ADV: ADV after v, be ADV, n ADV, oft ADV from n

Down-river is also an adjective.

...downriver factories dispensing billows of smoke.

? up-river

ADJ: ADJ n

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