Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
downriver [doun-riv-er] ExamplesWord Origin adverb, adjective
- with or in the direction of the current of a river: logs floating downriver.
Origin of downriver First recorded in 1885–90; down1 + river1 Examples from the Web for downriver Historical Examples of downriver
Then, downriver, she saw a canoe gliding over the glistening water.
Robert Shea
He was riding with the advance of Giltner’s brigade, double-quicking it downriver to Keller’s Bridge.
Andre Alice Norton
And in the morning there was a cockleshell of a boat oared in by one of the men who had found it downriver.
Andre Alice Norton
Umas-kwitšit-patše and his people slept at Selye’aye-‘itš-patše, downriver from them.
A. L. Kroeber