riverain
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French riverain.
Adjective edit
riverain (comparative more riverain, superlative most riverain)
- Of or pertaining to rivers or their surrounding environments.
- 1943 September and October, “Notes and News: B.A.P.R. Diamond Jubilee”, in Railway Magazine, page 307:
- Some fourteen years later the company obtained from Congress authority to reclaim a large area of riverain land on which to construct its terminus and yard, but it was not until July, 1912, that trains ran into its present Buenos Aires terminus, Retiro Station.
Noun edit
riverain (plural riverains)
- A person who lives beside a river.
- 2016, Philip Roessler, Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa, page 169:
- But, in the eyes of the riverains, the coup threatened not just Bashir—the North's historical domination of power and wealth in Sudan stood in the balance.
See also edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From rivière + -ain, literally “people living along a river”.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
riverain (feminine riveraine, masculine plural riverains, feminine plural riveraines)
- riverside (along a river)
Noun edit
riverain m (plural riverains)
- amnicolist
- resident (of a specific neighbourhood, square, etc.)
Further reading edit
- “riverain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.