THAMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thames mean? 

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

1. the longest river in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THAMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The longest river in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

River Thames; Thames; Thames River

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Van Helsing roughly put the facts before us first:—The Czarina Catherine left the Thames yesterday morning.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The house of the famous official was a fine villa with green lawns stretching down to the Thames.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The banks of the Thames presented a new scene; they were flat but fertile, and almost every town was marked by the remembrance of some story.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I hurled it out of the window, and it disappeared into the Thames.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Last night Challenger said that he never cared to walk on the Thames Embankment and look up the river, as it was always sad to see one's own eventual goal.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had been ascertained at the shipping offices that Browner had left aboard of the May Day, and I calculate that she is due in the Thames to-morrow night.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Baronet will never set the Thames on fire, but there seems to be no harm in him.—reciprocal compliments, which would have been esteemed about equal.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

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)

Well, it is only messages of another kind that I send to a lady, so we’ll just drive on our way, nephew, and thank our stars that we bring whole bones over the Thames.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We saw the cold winter sun rise over the dreary marshes of the Thames and the long, sullen reaches of the river, which I shall ever associate with our pursuit of the Andaman Islander in the earlier days of our career.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)