riverbank

See also: Riverbank, river-bank, and river bank

English

Etymology

From river +‎ bank

Noun

riverbank (plural riverbanks)

1. A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.
   • 1900 — L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ch 8

     "The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to the road again," remarked the Lion.

Translations

sloped side of a river

• Albanian: mat (sq)
• Armenian: գետափ (hy) (getapʿ)
• Catalan: riba (ca) f, ribera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 江畔 (zh)

• Egyptian: (jdb)
• Esperanto: riverbordo
• Finnish: joenpenkka (fi)
• French: rive (fr) f, berge (fr) f
• Galician: regada f, ribeira (gl) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὄχθη f (ókhthē)

• Hebrew: גדות‎ (gadoth)
• Hungarian: folyópart (hu)

• Ido: rivo (io)
• Ilocano: igid
• Latin: rīpa f
• Lubuagan Kalinga: teɏanteg
• Maori: tahataha, tarawāhi, paretai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: elvebredd m or f

  Nynorsk: elvebredd f, elvebreidd f, elvebreidde f

• Plautdietsch: Eewa n
• Spanish: orilla (es) f
• Tagalog: pampang
• Tuwali Ifugao: malona
• Ukrainian: берег річки m (bereh ričky)

Anagrams

• Rivenbark