Saint Lawrence River
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- proper noun
- /seɪnt ˈlɔːrəns ˈrɪvər/
:
río San Lorenzo
- The six-by-forty-foot image is composed of digitally joined photographs of the banks of the Saint Lawrence River as it forms the border between the United States and Canada.
Examples
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On a typical morning, the Three Nations International Crossing bridge over the Saint Lawrence River is a busy thoroughfare; the border crossing here averages four thousand cars per day.
Academic text (2011) -
In Flora Lyndsay (1854), Susanna Moodie gives a fictionalized account of the family's move to Canada, concluding with the journey up the Saint Lawrence River.
Blog text (22) -
"They say they will buy me a fishing pole and take me to the Saint Lawrence River.
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Having grown up on the Saint Lawrence River, I can recall the times the Bounty came through the shipping channel and even dropped anchor right in front of my childhood house once.
Blog text (15) -
Leaving Charlottetown, the ship went under the Confederation Bridge connecting Prince Edward Island with the mainland of Canada, then into the Saint Lawrence River; the Maasdam cruised into the Saguenay Fjord.
Academic text (2006) -
During my recent visit along the eastern shoreline of 7,300-square-mile Lake Ontario and up through the 1000 Island Region where the Saint Lawrence River spills out of that lake as it straddles the US border with Canada, I spent plenty of time on the water with friends, but we were still an hour or so below the six huge locks on the up-river end of the Seaway.
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Kitaljevich was on the other side of the Saint Lawrence River, shooting photos for his very first time-lapse video using a Nikon D300, a Sigma 10-20mm, and a GorillaPod.
Blog text (2) -
"On a typical morning, the Three Nations International Crossing bridge over the Saint Lawrence River is a busy thoroughfare; the border crossing here averages four thousand cars per day."
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"Having grown up on the Saint Lawrence River, I can recall the times the Bounty came through the shipping channel and even dropped anchor right in front of my childhood house once."
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"Because boats and canoes along the Saint Lawrence River and its tributaries were the only means of transport, surveyed land was laid out in long narrow strips running back from the river so that every parcel had access to the waterway."
Synonyms
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A large river in North America that flows from the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic
A large river in eastern North America that flows from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic
A large North American river flowing to the Atlantic and forming part of the Canada–US border
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase names a geographical feature composed transparently from a proper name ('Saint Lawrence') plus the noun 'River', so its meaning is simply a river named for Saint Lawrence. This follows a common naming pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows 'saint' and 'river' will readily understand it denotes a specific river even if the personal name 'Lawrence' is unfamiliar.
Etymology
The Saint Lawrence River was named by a French explorer who reached it on the day that honors the Christian Saint Lawrence. One popular story says Jacques Cartier arrived on the saint's 'feast day', so he named the river after him, which is why it still has that name today.