Definition of Severn River

1. Noun. A river in Ontario that flows northeast into Hudson Bay.

Exact synonyms: Severn
Group relationships: Ontario
Generic synonyms: River

2. Noun. A river in England and Wales flowing into the Bristol Channel; the longest river in Great Britain.
Exact synonyms: River Severn, Severn
Group relationships: England, Cambria, Cymru, Wales
Generic synonyms: River

Lexicographical Neighbors of Severn River

Seven Hills of Rome
Seven Sages
Seven Sisters
Seven Sleepers Day
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Seven Wonders of the World
Seven Years' War
Sevenless
Seventh-Day Adventism
Seventh-day Adventism
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Seventh Avenue
Seventh Crusade
Severinghaus electrode
Severn
Severn River (current term)
Severnaya Zemlya
Severnside
Severnsider
Severnsiders
Severo Ochoa
Sevilla
Sevillan
Sevillans
Seville
Seville orange
Sevillian
Sevillians
Seward
Seward's Folly

Literary usage of Severn River

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

1. The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the by Edmund March Blunt (1822)
"3 fathoms between New Point Comfort and Severn river, muddy bottom. You may go to sea from this river with the wind from SW to NW Directions for those bound ..."

2. Economic Geology by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"View in class sand pit, on Severn River, Md.— The tunnel shows position of bed of glass sand. The overlying beds carry too much iron oxide. (H. Ries, photo. ..."

3. History and Digest of the International Arbitrations to which the United by John Bassett Moore (1898)
"... 1854, having examined the Severn River in the State of Maryland, United States, do hereby agree and decide that a line bearing N. 7° W. Magnetic, ..."

4. A New Student's Atlas of English History by Emil Reich (1903)
"... post-Norman England, the Severn River never formed a boundary either to kingdoms or to shires. To fact Mip. ..."

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