UPRIVER

Meaning of UPRIVER in English

/up"riv"euhr/ , adv. , adj.

in the direction of or nearer the source of a river: It's hard to paddle a canoe upriver; an upriver settlement of tribes.

[ 1830-40, Amer.; UP- + RIVER 1 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

UPRIVER — adverb or adjective Date: 1774 toward or at a point nearer the source of a river
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
UPRIVER — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adverb (or adjective) Etymology: up (IV) + river : toward, at, or from a point nearer the source of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
UPRIVER — adv. further up the river, closer to the source of the river
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
UPRIVER — adverb or adjective Date: 1774 : toward or at a point nearer the source of a river
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
UPRIVER — ■ adverb & adjective towards or situated at a point nearer the source of a river.
Concise Oxford English vocab
UPRIVER — [up.riv.er] adv or adj (1774): toward or at a point nearer the source of a river
Merriam-Webster English vocab
UPRIVER — upriver BrE AmE ˌʌp ˈrɪv ə ◂ AmE \ - ə r ◂
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
UPRIVER — / ˌʌpˈrɪvə(r); NAmE / adverb = upstream
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UPRIVER — up ‧ riv ‧ er /ˌʌpˈrɪvə $ -ər/ BrE AmE adverb away from the sea towards the place where a …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
UPRIVER — see up-river
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UPRIVER — see up-river
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
UPRIVER — adverb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By the shore the driftwood was still travelling upriver , but in midstream it was …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
UPRIVER — [adverb], [adjective] - towards the place where a river startsWe paddled upriver for a couple of hours.
Cambridge English vocab
UPRIVER — в верховье
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
UPRIVER — в верховье
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
UPRIVER — в верховье
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
UPRIVER — в верховье
Англо-Русский словарь
UPRIVER — adv. Pronunciation: ' ə p- ' ri-v ə r Function: adverb or adjective Date: 1774 : toward or at a …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
ABOVE — I. adverb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English abufan, from a- + bufan ~, from be- + ufan ~; akin …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
URUGUAY RIVER — River, southeastern South America. Rising in southern Brazil, it forms the border between Argentina and Brazil and between Argentina and …
Английский словарь Британика
SOCKEYE SALMON — or red salmon Food fish ( Oncorhynchus nerka ) of the North Pacific that constitutes almost 20% of the commercial …
Английский словарь Британика
MEGHNA RIVER — River, Bangladesh. It is formed by the Surma River . Flowing south, it is joined southeast of Dhaka by the …
Английский словарь Британика
AMAZON RIVER — Portuguese Rio Amazonas River, northern South America. It is the largest river in the world in volume and area of …
Английский словарь Британика
RIPOSTE — I. noun also re·post rə̇ˈpōst, rēˈp- ( -s ) Etymology: French riposte, alteration of risposte, from Italian risposta, literally, answer …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LABOR
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FLOAT — I. ˈflōt, usu -ōd.+V noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: partly from Middle English flote boat, fleet, float, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DRILL — I. ˈdril transitive verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English drillen to delay 1. now dialect Britain a. : to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SURE-ENOUGH — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ adjective Etymology: sure enough : actual , genuine , real the life for a sure-enough man — A.B.Guthrie upriver …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GAMBIA, THE, HISTORY OF — history of the area from precolonial times to the present. Additional reading Historical information may be found in J.M. Gray, …
Britannica English vocabulary
UP-RIVER — also upriver Something that is moving up-river is moving towards the source of a river, from a point down the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UP-RIVER — also upriver Something that is moving ~ is moving towards the source of a river, from a point down the …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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