RIVULET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rivulet mean? 

• RIVULET (noun)
  The noun RIVULET has 1 sense:

1. a small stream

  Familiarity information: RIVULET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIVULET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small stream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

rill; rivulet; run; runnel; streamlet

Hypernyms ("rivulet" is a kind of...):

stream; watercourse (a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth)

 Context examples 

We passed over five or six rivers, many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges: and there was hardly a rivulet so small as the Thames at London-bridge.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)