Black River
English edit
Proper noun edit
- One of the longest rivers in Jamaica; it is 33.2 miles long.
- A town located at the mouth of the Black River, the parish capital of Saint Elizabeth parish, Jamaica.
- A river in Vietnam and Yunnan, China.
- 1972 July 14, Seymour M. Hersh, “Dikes in Hanoi Area Represent 2,000‐Year Effort to Tame Rivers”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-02-24[2]:
- Specific data on the flow of the Red River near Hanoi was impossible to obtain but last month Le Monde, the Paris newspaper, published a dispatch predicting that the flow of the Black River, a main tributary, would reach 32,500 cubic meters a second at Sontay, about 25 miles northwest of Hanoi (a cubic meter is about 35 cubic feet).
- 2017 July 1, Colin Hinshelwood, “Cruise Vietnam’s scenic and lush Red River”, in CNN[3], archived from the original on 25 June 2017[4]:
- The Upper Red River veers northwards to China, but we take a sneaky left-hand turn down the Da River (Black River).
- A river in west-central Wisconsin, United States, a tributary of the Mississippi.
Synonyms edit
- (from Vietnamese) Sông Đà
- (from Mandarin Chinese, upper reaches) Lixian River
Derived terms edit
- Black River Falls (Wisconsin)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- Black River, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- “Black River, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Black River”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Black River” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Black River”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 445, column 1