Rhine Definition

rīn
noun

(UK, dialect) A watercourse; a ditch for water.

Wiktionary
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Synonyms:
  • Joseph Banks Rhine
  • J. B. Rhine
  • rhein
  • Rhine River

Other Word Forms of Rhine

Noun

Singular:
Rhine
Plural:
rhines

Origin of Rhine

  • Anglo-Saxon ryne. See run.

    From Wiktionary

Rhine Sentence Examples

  • The upper Rhine and upper Danube are easily crossed.

  • The first advance came about 74, when what is now Baden was invaded and in part annexed and a road carried from the Roman base on the upper Rhine, Strassburg, to the Danube just above Ulm.

  • We do not, however, know its date, save that, if not Domitian's work, it was carried out soon after his death, and the whole frontier thus constituted was reorganized, probably by Hadrian, with a continuous wooden palisade reaching from Rhine to Danube.

  • But we know that the pressure of the barbarians began to be felt seriously in the later part of the 2nd century, and after long struggles the whole or almost the whole district east of Rhine and north of Danube was lost - seemingly all within one short period - about A.D.

  • He actively promoted the incorporation of the left bank of the Rhine with France and in 1793 went to Paris to carry on the negotiations.

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Words Starting With

RRHRHI

Words Ending With

ENEINE

Unscrambles

Rhine

Words Starting With R and Ending With E

Starts With R & Ends With EStarts With RH & Ends With EStarts With R & Ends With NE

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