river horse

Questions about river horse

What is another word for river horse?

It depends which river horse you mean. In the sense “massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa”, the synonyms are hippopotamus, hippo, Hippopotamus amphibius. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of river horse?

WordNet records no antonym for river horse. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for river horse come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of river horse

• Full entry for river horseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for river horseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.