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Rhone

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Noun

1. rhone, rhone river

a major French river; flows into the Mediterranean near Marseilles

Example Sentences:
'the valley of the Rhone is famous for its vineyards'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rhone

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noun
1. 
a river in W Europe, rising in S Switzerland in the Rhône glacier and flowing to Lake Geneva, then into France through gorges between the Alps and Jura and south to its delta on the Gulf of Lions: important esp for hydroelectricity and for wine production along its valley. Length: 812 km (505 miles)
2. 
a department of E central France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Capital: Lyon. Pop: 1 621 718 (2003 est). Area: 3233 sq km (1261 sq miles)

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Rhone

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river flowing from SW Switzerland south through France into the Gulf of Lions: 505 mi (813 km)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rhone

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A river rising in the Alps of south-central Switzerland and flowing about 815 km (505 mi) west-southwest and northwest to Lake Geneva then into eastern France, where it joins the Saône River at Lyon and continues southward to the Mediterranean Sea.

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