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sambre is a noun meaning "a river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Meuse at Namur". It carries one recorded sense.
a river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Meuse at Namur
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sambre come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.