river bottom

1. 1.

   a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river

   Synonymsriverbed

   Broaderbed

Questions about river bottom

What does river bottom mean?

river bottom means "a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river".

What is another word for river bottom?

Close synonyms include riverbed. 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 river bottom a common word?

river bottom 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.