NORTH PLATTE RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North Platte River mean? 

• NORTH PLATTE RIVER (noun)
  The noun NORTH PLATTE RIVER has 1 sense:

1. a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River

  Familiarity information: NORTH PLATTE RIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH PLATTE RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

North Platte; North Platte River

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("North Platte River" is a part of...):

Centennial State; CO; Colo.; Colorado (a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains)

Cornhusker State; NE; Neb.; Nebraska (a midwestern state on the Great Plains)

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)