Definition of Right Bank

1. Noun. The region of Paris on the north bank of the Seine.


Definition of Right Bank

1. Noun. (of a river) the bank to the right when facing downstream ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Right Bank

right angle clamp
right angles
right as a trivet
right as rain
right ascension
right atrioventricular valve
right atrium
right atrium of heart
right atrium of the heart
right auricular appendage
right away
right axis deviation
right back
right backs
right bank
right banks
right border of heart
right bracket
right brackets
right brain
right branch
right branch of portal vein
right branch of proper hepatic artery
right colic artery
right colic flexure
right colic lymph nodes
right colic vein
right coronary artery
right coronary artery branches

Literary usage of Right Bank

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"At the seventeenth verst is the hamlet of Shur, on the right bank ... on the right bank, Fort Chil-dara, while facing it on the left bank is Pator. ..."

2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"Major-General Sir John Lambert, with the reserve, met the whole falling back in confusion. right bank of the river (about 300 yards across) .a battery of ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"All the defences enumerated are on the right bank. On the left bank the two old forts Isabelle and Marie alone defend the Scheldt. ..."

4. Italy: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1900)
"Quarters of the City on the Right Bank. On the right bank of the Tiber are situated two distinct quarters : towards the N. the Borgo, or quarter of the ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"The river here takes a turn to the north, and we followed the right bank for a ... The town is on the right bank, and the river 1000 to 1200 yards wide. ..."

6. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1903)
"the Kandel (see below); after about 1 hr. it ascends on the right bank of the stream. ... The station lies on tlie right bank, to the N. of the town, ..."

7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists (1869)
"Blue Spring, right bank. 17 & 18. Two mounds in the woods below ... Mound below the outlet of Lake Dexter, right bank. 25. ..."

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