Seaside vs River - What's the difference?
seaside | river |
The area by and around the sea; bay; beach; promenade
* Classic song:
Related to a seaside .
A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, ending at an ocean or in an inland sea.
* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
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, title= Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
As a noun seaside
is the area by and around the sea; bay; beach; promenade.As an adjective seaside
is related to a seaside .As a proper noun river is
.seaside
English
Noun
(en noun)- This summer, I'm going to the seaside at Weymouth - I'm very excited about it!
- I do like to be beside the seaside !
- Oh, I do like to be beside the sea!
- I do like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom,
- While the brass band plays tiddleyompompom!
- Oh, just let me be beside the seaside!
- I'll be beside myself with glee.
- There are lots of girls, besides,
- That I'd like to be beside,
- Beside the seaside , beside the sea.
Adjective
(-)Usage notes
* This adjective is only used attributively.See also
* (wikipedia "seaside")References
*QCA curriculum
Anagrams
*river
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun)- By the side of the river' he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the ' river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers , washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}
Derived terms
* cry someone a river * riverbank * riverbed * river basin * river bed * river birch * river blindness * riverboat/river boat * river bottom * river boulder * river dolphin * river duck * riverfront * river hog * river horse * riverine * river lamprey * river limper * river mouth * river otter * river pear * river prawn * river runner * river shad * riverside * riverward * riverway * sell down the river * submarine river * up the river * (river)See also
*Verb
(en verb)- Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.