Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dwells by a river or upon its banks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who lives near a river.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun formal, rare One who
dwells by ariver .
Etymologies
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Latin amnicola ("dwelling by a river") + English -ist; compare the French amnicole
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Examples
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She was not a bad-looking person, though an amnicolist.
The Garden of the Plynck Karle Wilson Baker 1919
fbharjo commented on the word amnicolist
a go-with-the-flow list (and banks on it)??
January 20, 2012