rivière

• riviere

Borrowed from French rivière. Doublet of river and riviera.

rivière (plural rivières)

1. A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, especially one of several strings.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:riviere.

From Middle French riviere, from Old French riviere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria.

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.vjɛʁ/

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rivière f (plural rivières)

1. a river (a large, winding stream that flows into a lake, bay, larger river, etc., but not into an ocean or sea)

• A river that flows into an ocean or sea is called a fleuve.

• les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières
• perche de rivière
• porter de l'eau à la rivière
• Trois-Rivières

• → English: rivière

• fleuve
• ru
• ruisseau

• “rivière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.