RHINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rhine mean? 

• RHINE (noun)
  The noun RHINE has 2 senses:

1. United States parapsychologist (1895-1980)

2. a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea

  Familiarity information: RHINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States parapsychologist (1895-1980)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

J. B. Rhine; Joseph Banks Rhine; Rhine

Instance hypernyms:

parapsychologist (someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Rhein; Rhine; Rhine River

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Rhine" is a part of...):

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

Holland; Kingdom of The Netherlands; Nederland; Netherlands; The Netherlands (a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level)

Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera; Swiss Confederation; Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)

 Context examples 

This part of the Rhine, indeed, presents a singularly variegated landscape.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was a town on the Upper Rhine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Italian he might be were his bassinet more sloped, but I will swear that those plates were welded betwixt this and Rhine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sail up the Rhine was perfect, and I just sat and enjoyed it with all my might.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I did what I could for him, but he would wear ribbons in his shoes, and he publicly mistook white Burgundy for Rhine wine.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Sea and from the Rhine River to the Atlantic Ocean.

(Metropolitan France, NCI Thesaurus)

In the clear embers I was tracing a view, not unlike a picture I remembered to have seen of the castle of Heidelberg, on the Rhine, when Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her entrance the fiery mosaic I had been piercing together, and scattering too some heavy unwelcome thoughts that were beginning to throng on my solitude.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“I could pass my life here,” said he to me; “and among these mountains I should scarcely regret Switzerland and the Rhine.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)