What is another word for downriver?

Pronunciation: [dˈa͡ʊnɹɪvə] (IPA)

Downriver is a term used to describe the direction in which a river flows, but there are several synonyms that can be used to describe the same thing. Chasing the river downstream, sailing in the direction of the river's current, or going with the flow are all ways to describe moving downriver. Moving in the same direction as the current or following the river's course are other phrases that depict the same movement. Additionally, the phrase 'riverward' can be used to describe the direction of the river. Regardless of the term used, moving downriver is a common activity for fishermen, kayakers, and anyone who enjoys being on the water.

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What are the hypernyms for Downriver?

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What are the opposite words for downriver?

The word "downriver" typically describes a direction of movement or location in relation to the flow of a river, indicating movement or location towards the mouth of the river. Antonyms for downriver include upstream, upriver, inland or upstreamward, all of which describe movement or location towards the source of the river. Upstream implies movement against the current, while upriver refers more to a location along the beginning of the river. Inland denotes movement or location away from the river, while upstreamward indicates movement in the opposite direction to downriver, towards the origin of the river.

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Usage examples for Downriver

Itu is a natural place for our upriver and downriver work to come together.
"White Queen of the Cannibals: The Story of Mary Slessor"
A. J. Bueltmann
There is the known earth, pugao; the sky world, kabunian; the region downriver, lagod; the region upriver, daiya; and the underworld, dalun."
"The Golden Skull"
John Blaine
When the raft was untied, the current carried it downriver, and whenever it would become stuck on one side of the river one of the men would pull on a rope to free it.
"The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc"
Joanot Martorell and Marti Johan d'Galba

Famous quotes with Downriver

  • Do we not already sing our love for and obligation to the land of the free and the home of the brave? Yes, but just what and whom do we love? Certainly not the soil, which we are sending helter-skelter downriver. Certainly not the waters, which we assume have no function except to turn turbines, float barges, and carry off sewage. Certainly not the plants, of which we exterminate whole communities without batting an eye. Certainly not the animals, of which we have already extirpated many of the largest and most beautiful species.
    Aldo Leopold
  • Past the flannel plains and the blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the a.m. heat: shattercane, lamb’s-quarter, cutgrass, sawbrier, nutgrass, jimsonweed, wild mint, dandelion, foxtail, muscatine, spinecabbage, goldenrod, creeping charlie, butter-print, nightshade, ragweed, wild oat, vetch, butcher grass, invaginate volunteer beans, all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother’s soft hand on your cheek.
    David Foster Wallace

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