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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
downriver
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The bridge was a mile downriver.
Wiktionary
downriver

a. Closer to the mouth of a river adv. Travelling in the direction of the river current.

WordNet
downriver

adv. away from the source or with the current [syn: downstream] [ant: upriver, upriver]

Wikipedia
Downriver

Downriver is the unofficial name for a collection of 18 suburban cities and townships in Wayne County, Michigan south of Detroit along the western shore of the Detroit River.

The name derives from the fact that the Detroit River, after running more or less west along the banks of Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, then bends to flow largely south before emptying into Lake Erie. Communities to the south of the city can thus be accessed by traveling downriver (as opposed to upriver) along the waterway.

Downriver (album)

Downriver is the third solo (studio) album by Karen Matheson, lead singer of the Scottish band Capercaillie.

Downriver (film)

Downriver is a 2015 Australian film funded by Screen Australia, Film Victoria and Melbourne International Film Festival, produced by Happening Films. It is writer-director Grant Scicluna's feature debut. The main cast includes Robert Taylor, Kerry Fox, Helen Morse and Reef Ireland. It is described as a mystery drama in which a teenage killer returns to uncover dark truths in his quest to find a missing body.

Usage examples of "downriver".

No one saw her in the swirling rush of tree branches, leaves and foliage being carried rapidly downriver.

Elfin Highlands, and some to trade for the round raisin cheeses which had come downriver from Twombly Town.

These dwarfs, anxiously awaiting their cheeses, prepared honeycakes in huge quantities, some for themselves, some for the elves that lived above in the Elfin Highlands, and some to trade for the round raisin cheeses which had come downriver from Twombly Town.

He could see clots of horsemen, what seemed thousands of them, tracking their slow drift downriver.

The cold wet winds, he claimed, reminded him of Connaught, and from his Develin vantage point he could see all the way downriver to Rotherhithe and keep an eye on his four-legged assets.

Two farmers were emigrating downriver from Illinois, in search of milder climate, and had brought with them a team of plow horses, two milk cows, numerous pigs, uncountable chickens in crates, farm machinery, household furniture, wives, invalid grandfolks and what sometimes seemed to be about two hundred children.

Despairing, he was about to turn back and rush around the mill to peer downriver, when he remembered from his early reconnaissance of the place that the old structure had a walled millrace where the Frakes kept several of their boats hidden.

Unremarked among the other sparse river traffic, a tiny felucca used the last of the evening breeze to leave the Omdurman bank and slip downriver.

PBRs downriver one night to clear out a Khmer Rouge ambush site twenty-five miles or so south of Phnom Penh and went along for the ride.

If I was planning the chase, I would put the warship downriver, beyond the point of the shoal, and have the picketboat quarter back and forth, hoping to flush us out.

The picketboat was close by, slowly advancing downriver amongst trees that had become a myriad floating islands.

He would gather all the machines within the range of his powers and kill everyone on the picketboat, and then continue downriver alone.

Downriver sandbars showed where fall had seen the river high above them, and the riverboats, half-loaded, still plied the middle of the channel with greatest care.

Hippolyte Gravier from the plantation downriver from Beau Repos, had also been pressed to extend his visit past the noon hour.

Caprice in under the carport beside the house as Zachary Richard sang a zydeco jingle for a casino downriver.