east river
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A channel in New York City, New York Harbor, at the narrow end of Long Island Sound, separating Manhattan, from Long Island.
Example Sentences
- "The East River moved over the bedrock riddled with the tunnels of deep underground trains and connected with the Hudson, flowing southeast past the Statue of Liberty, out of New York Harbor and out into the Atlantic."
Etymology
east + river * (New York City): From being a river-like channel lying east of Manhattan (“New York City”)
Inflected Forms
the East River (canonical)