Definition of Murray River

1. Noun. A southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide.

Exact synonyms: Murray
Group relationships: Australia, Commonwealth Of Australia, Australia
Generic synonyms: River

Lexicographical Neighbors of Murray River

Muritaniya
Murmansk
Muroidea
Murphy
Murphy's Law
Murphy's law
Murphy's percussion
Murphy's sign
Murphy bed
Murphy beds
Murphy drip
Murphy game
Murray
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray River (current term)
Murray Valley encephalitis
Murray Valley encephalitis virus
Murray Valley rash
Murraymania
Murree
Murrinh-Patha
Murrow
Murrumbidgee
Murrumbidgee River
Murrumbidgee jam
Murrumbidgee jams
Murugan
Murutucu virus
MusD

Literary usage of Murray River

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"After having explored the lower part of the course of the Darling, he passed to the country south of the Murray River, traced the lowe. course of its great ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1887)
"The fence which I have sug- gested as proper to be run westerly, some miles out from and parallel with the Murray river, should be continued across the ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Murray River, the largest river in Australia, rises in the Australian Alps about 36* 40' 8. lat. ... This stream, the Murray river, he followed down to Lake ..."

4. Australia Visited and Revisited: A Narrative of Recent Travels and Old by Samuel Mossman, Thomas Banister (1853)
"The Murray River system of waters—Description of the country through which the Murray flows—The town of Albury—Favourable dispersion of the gold ..."

5. The Australian Race: Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in by Edward Micklethwaite Curr (1886)
"FROM THE BANKS OF THE Murray River, WHERE IT ENTERS LAKE ALEX- ANDRINA, TO THE EMBOUCHURE OF THAT RIVER AND LACEPEDE BAY. BY THE LATE REVD. ..."

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