a major French river; flows into the Mediterranean near Marseilles
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French Rhône, probably from Celtic Rodanos, stream name, literally, the flowing...
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one of the major rivers of Europe, rising in Switzerland and running from there through southeastern France. At Arles, near its mouth on the Mediterranean Sea, the river divides into two branches, known as the Great Rhone and the Little Rhone. The ... (42 of 1832 words, 10 images)
A department in the French region of Rhône-Alpes. | A river of France (12 of 14 words, 2 definitions, 1 image)
a river in western Europe, rising in southern Switzerland in the Rhône ... | a department of eastern central France, in the Rhône-Alpes region. ... (23 of 346 words, 2 definitions, 4 usage examples, pronunciation)
Lat. "Rhodanus", river, 505 mi (813 km) long, rising in the Rhône glacier, northeastern Valais, Switzerland. It flows west through a narrow, flat ... (23 of 313 words)
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department (1990 population: 1,516,500), eastern central France, in parts of Beaujolais and Lyonnais. Lyons is the capital. (17 of 20 words, pronunciation)
a river in southwestern Europe which rises in the Swiss Alps and flows 812 km (505 miles), through Lake Geneva into France, then to Lyons, Avignon, ... (26 of 59 words, pronunciation)
a river flowing from the Alps in southern Switzerland through the Lake of ... | a department in eastern Central France: wine-growing region. ... (22 of 54 words, 2 definitions, pronunciations)
river flowing from southwestern Switzerland south through France into the Gulf of Lions: 505 mi (813 km) (17 of 44 words, pronunciation)
river 505 miles (813 kilometers) Switzerland and France rising in the Alps and flowing through Lake Geneva into Gulf of Lion (21 of 27 words, pronunciation)
A river rising in the Alps of south-central Switzerland and flowing about 813 km (505 mi) west-southwest and northwest to Lake Geneva then into ... (24 of 45 words, pronunciation)
country of northwestern Europe. Historically and culturally among the most important nations in the Western world, France has also played a highly ... (22 of 1594 words, 104 images)
a large area of water that flows towards the sea ; a large amount of liquid that flows somewhere (19 of 98 words, 6 usage examples, pronunciation)
a natural wide flow of fresh water across the land into the sea, a lake, or another river | ([abbreviation] "R") used usually before, sometimes after, ... (25 of 75 words, 4 definitions, 3 usage examples, pronunciations)
river in Switzerland and France, flowing southwestward from the Alps into the Mediterranean Sea. Length: 813 km (17 of 24 words, pronunciation)
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Origin: French Rhône, probably from Celtic Rodanos, stream name, literally, the flowing one from Indo-European *ered-, to flow from base *er- derives "run"
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