Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: severn
IPA transcription: [s'ɛvɚn]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Severn, River_Severn, Severn_River
    Meaning: a river in England and Wales flowing into the Bristol Channel; the longest river in Great Britain
  • Synonyms: Severn, Severn_River
    Meaning: a river in Ontario that flows northeast into Hudson Bay
Usage examples
  • Waller had approached within two miles of the royal camp, and was only separated from it by the Severn, when he received intelligence that the king was advanced to Bewdly, and had directed his course towards Shrewsbury.
  • These trackways, these green roads of England, these roads already disused when the Romans made their highway past Silbury Hill to Bath, can still be traced for scores of miles through the land, running to Salisbury and the English Channel, eastward to the crossing at the Straits and westward to Wales, to ferries over the Severn, and southwestward into Devon and Cornwall.