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Rivulet definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RIV'ULET, n. [L. rivulus.] A small stream or book; a streamlet.
By fountain or by shady rivulet, he sought them.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small stream [syn: rivulet, rill, run, runnel, streamlet]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo, from Latin rivulus, diminutive of rivus stream — more at run Date: 1587 a small stream

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a small stream. Etymology: obs. riveret f. F, dimin. of rivière RIVER, perh. after It. rivoletto dimin. of rivolo dimin. of rivo f. L rivus stream

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rivulet Riv"u*let, n. [Earlier rivolet, It. rivoletto, a dim. fr. rivolo, L. rivulus, dim. of rivus a brook. CF. Rival, Rite.] A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them. --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rivulets) A rivulet is a small stream. (FORMAL) N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Brook, streamlet, runnel, rill, runlet, small stream, burn.

Moby Thesaurus

adolescent stream, arroyo, beck, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, channel, creek, crick, flowing stream, fluviation, fresh, freshet, gill, kill, lazy stream, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, race, racing stream, river, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, sike, spill stream, stream, stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, wadi, watercourse, waterway