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.

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  • noun formal, rare One who dwells by a river.

Etymologies

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Latin amnicola ("dwelling by a river") + English -ist; compare the French amnicole

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  • a go-with-the-flow list (and banks on it)??

    January 20, 2012