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RHINE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea

Synonyms:

Rhein; Rhine; Rhine River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Rhine" is a part of...):

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

Holland; Kingdom of The Netherlands; Nederland; Netherlands; The Netherlands (a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level)

Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera; Swiss Confederation; Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States parapsychologist (1895-1980)

Synonyms:

J. B. Rhine; Joseph Banks Rhine; Rhine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

parapsychologist (someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I have endured toil and misery; I left Switzerland with you; I crept along the shores of the Rhine, among its willow islands and over the summits of its hills.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In truth, I was occupied by gloomy thoughts and neither saw the descent of the evening star nor the golden sunrise reflected in the Rhine.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)