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  • 1. downriver
  • Rhymes with Downriver
  • Downriver in a sentence
  • Quotes about Downriver
Table of Contents
  • 1. downriver
  • Rhymes with Downriver
  • Downriver in a sentence
  • Quotes about Downriver
Antonyms
Etymology

1. downriver

adverb. ['ˌdaʊnˈrɪvɝ'] away from the source or with the current.

Antonyms

  • upstream

Etymology

  • down- (English)
  • river (English)
  • rivere (Anglo-Norman)

Rhymes with Downriver

  • upriver
  • mcivor
  • mciver
  • deliver
  • sliver
  • quiver
  • shiver
  • liver
  • giver
  • ivar

Sentences with downriver


1. Noun, singular or mass
Your guide will steer the boat from the stern as you and five other passengers propel the raft downriver.

2. Adverb
The cruise stops at the Chalmette Battlefield just downriver from the French Quarter.

Quotes about downriver


1. Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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