Red River
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2.2
- proper noun
:
Río Rojo
- The Red River flows through several states before joining the Mississippi River.
Examples
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Their route turned north to Denison, across the Red River, and into the heart of the western Choctaw country.
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The case study analysis also included two cities in which the expected relationship between race and altitude was reversed; that is, Shreveport, Louisiana, on the Red River and Ft. Myers-Cape Coral, Florida, on the Gulf coast.
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It's close to the Red River.
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So a father and a son "go to the water," to the Red River.
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The present we are returned to at the book's end is the author's, there on the bank of the Red River with his thirteen-year-old son.
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The novel Humphrey weaves from this history begins on the banks of that Red River.
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Richard Taylor's victory over Union forces secures the Red River Valley for the Confederacy.
Academic text (2004) -
The district wants to divert about 7 percent of the water before it goes into the Red River and absorbs too much salt to be drinkable.
Blog text (16) -
The Texas legislature created Greer County on 6 February 1860 out of the territory that fell east of the 100th meridian and between the two main forks of the Red River.
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The Land Office intended to assign the newcomers to an area bounded by the Red River to the south, the line of the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway to the north, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad to the west, and the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad to the east.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
A river in the south-central United States that flows east from Texas along the southern border of Oklahoma into Louisiana
Surface Forms
Morphology
The name is compositionally transparent: 'red' (a colour) + 'river' (a watercourse) yields the straightforward idea of a river that is red or called Red River, so a learner who knows both words can infer its basic meaning. It is a specific toponym requiring extra world knowledge to locate the exact river, but that does not block compositional understanding at the B1 level.
Etymology
Red River may come from the red color of the water when heavy rains wash red clay and soil into it. The word red points to that color and the word river just means the river itself, so that's why people call it 'Red River' today.