Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nile_river

1 sense of nile river

Sense 1
Nile, Nile River -- (the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization)
       INSTANCE OF=> river -- (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles")