Noun: ria
Sample Sentences
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Flinders had advised Baudin to stop in Port Jackson (the ria of what is now Sydney) when in need of refreshment […]. [2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 49:]
Nouns inflected like ria
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From German Ria, from Spanish ría (“inlet, estuary”), from Galician ría, from Galician río, from Latin. See: Spanish Nouns '
ría', Galician Nouns '
ría', Galician Nouns '
río'.