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Definition of Murray River
1. Noun. A southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide.
Group relationships: Australia, Commonwealth Of Australia, Australia
Generic synonyms: River
Lexicographical Neighbors of Murray River
Literary usage of Murray River
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"After having explored the lower part of the course of the Darling, he passed to
the country south of the Murray River, traced the lowe. course of its great ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1887)
"The fence which I have sug- gested as proper to be run westerly, some miles out
from and parallel with the Murray river, should be continued across the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Murray River, the largest river in Australia, rises in the Australian Alps about
36* 40' 8. lat. ... This stream, the Murray river, he followed down to Lake ..."
4. Australia Visited and Revisited: A Narrative of Recent Travels and Old by Samuel Mossman, Thomas Banister (1853)
"The Murray River system of waters—Description of the country through which the
Murray flows—The town of Albury—Favourable dispersion of the gold ..."
5. The Australian Race: Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in by Edward Micklethwaite Curr (1886)
"FROM THE BANKS OF THE Murray River, WHERE IT ENTERS LAKE ALEX- ANDRINA, TO THE
EMBOUCHURE OF THAT RIVER AND LACEPEDE BAY. BY THE LATE REVD. ..."
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