Missouri River
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- proper noun
- /mɪˈzʊəri ˈrɪvər/
:
río Misuri
- From the window of a small airplane flying at a few thousand feet last July, Gordon Farabee looked down over the Missouri River near St. Louis and smiled the smile of a biologist witnessing a natural wonder.
- the upper Missouri River
Examples
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The nine-acre footprint for the plant was chiseled into the bluffs within Missouri Research Park overlooking the Missouri River.
Academic text (2000) -
Home to Peru State College, it's on the banks of the Missouri River.
Blog text (3) -
Corps officials responsible for the Missouri River say they have no choice but to reduce the flow.
Blog text (4) -
Another likely source is the growing population, especially to the west along the massive Missouri River tributary.
Blog text (2) -
By Clark's estimate, their journey had taken them 4,162 miles from the mouth of the Missouri River.
Blog text (2) -
I waited anxiously for news of his progress during those first precarious weeks on the upper Missouri River.
Blog text (26) -
When Patch said it was time to go, they mounted up and rode westward, coming upon the Missouri River in mid-afternoon.
Fiction book (1994) -
An orphan calf followed Captain Meriwether Lewis one afternoon as he walked west beside the Missouri River.
Academic text (2002) -
Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 near Hidatsa and Mandan villages along the upper Missouri River in what is now North Dakota.
Academic text (1992) -
The Missouri River flows southeast from Montana and meets the Mississippi River near St. Louis.
Synonyms
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A long river in the United States that starts in Montana and joins the Mississippi near St Louis
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward proper-name + common-noun composition: knowing 'Missouri' (a place/name) and 'river' (a watercourse) lets a learner infer it is a river called Missouri. The construction (X River) is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE even if they do not know detailed facts like its length or course.
Etymology
Missouri River may get its name from a Native American tribe called the Missouri. One popular story says their name meant 'people of the big canoes', and early French explorers used that tribe name for the River, so today the long river is called the Missouri River.