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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun niagara has 2 senses
- niagara(n = noun.object) niagara falls - waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls; Array is a part of ontario, empire state, new york, new york state, ny, niagara, niagara river
- niagara(n = noun.object) niagara river - a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York; Array is a part of canada, america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa
has parts: american falls, canadian falls, horseshoe falls
is a kind of falls, waterfall
has parts: niagara, niagara falls
is a kind of river
CIDE DICTIONARY
niagara, n.
niagara, prop. n.
A large waterfall on the Niagara River near Buffalo remarkable for the volume and constancy of the water flowing over it. That part of the waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; the U. S. portion is called the American Falls. [WordNet 1.5]
niagara, prop. n.
A river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, which forms the boundary between Ontario and New York. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
niagara
cascade, cataract, deluge, fall, falls, flood, force, fresh, freshet, linn, nappe, pour, river, sault, spate, torrent, waterfall, waterflood, watershootROGET THESAURUS
niagara
River
N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.
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