cumberland river

1. 1.

   a river that rises in southeastern Kentucky and flows westward through northern Tennessee to become a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Kentucky

   SynonymsCumberland

   Broaderriver

   Part ofKentuckyTennessee

Questions about cumberland river

What does cumberland river mean?

cumberland river means "a river that rises in southeastern Kentucky and flows westward through northern Tennessee to become a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Kentucky".

What is another word for cumberland river?

Close synonyms include Cumberland. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cumberland river a common word?

cumberland river is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.