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Definition of Rhone

1. Noun. A major French river; flows into the Mediterranean near Marseilles. "The valley of the Rhone is famous for its vineyards"

Definition of Rhone

1. Proper noun. (rivers) A river in Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea. ¹

2. Proper noun. A department in the French region of Rhône-Alpes. ¹

3. Noun. (Scotland) A horizontal section of guttering, collecting rainwater from a roof. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rhone

1. a roof-gutter [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhone

Literary usage of Rhone

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

1. Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol: Handbook by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1899)
"Walking is preferable from Miinster onwards. In the reverse direction the diligence takes ll/z hrs. — One-horse carr. from the Rhone Glacier to Munster 10, ..."

2. Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol: Handbook by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1897)
"One-horse carr. from the Rhone Glacier to Münster 10, two-horse 20 fr. ; to Fiesch 18 or 35, to Brig 30 or 60 fr. ; from Brig to Fiesch 12 or 25, ..."

3. Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and the Tyrol by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1889)
"One-horse carr. from the Rhone Glacier to Fiesch 20, two-horse 30 fr. ; to Brieg 30 or 50 ... From the Rhone Glacier over the Furka to Andermatt, see R. 33; ..."

4. Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol: Handbook by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1903)
"10с.); from Göschenen to Brigue daily in 12 (Brigue to Göschenen 14) hrs., with '/z hr.'s halt at Tiefenbach and dinner at the Rhone Glacier Hotel (19 fr. ..."

5. Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol: Handbook by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1907)
"We next pass through a tunnel, noticing a beautiful waterfall on the right, and reach (29 M.) helle (p. 364). 82. From the Rhone Glacier to Brigue. ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"quits the Rhone in order to run west by a direct route past ... The Rhone continues to roll on southwards, but no longer (as no doubt it did in ancient ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"At Culoz (41! m. by rail frt>m Geneva) the railway from Geneva to Lyons (105 m.) quits the Rhone in order to run west by a direct route past ..."

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