Rio Grande

¹

[ree-oh grand, gran-dee, grahn-dey, ree-oo grahn-di]

noun

1. Mexican Rio Bravo. a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1,800 miles (2,900 km) long.

2. a river flowing W from SE Brazil into the Paraná River. 650 miles (1,050 km) long.

3. Also called Rio Grande do Sul. São Pedro do Río Grande do Sul.

Río Grande

²

[ree-oh grahn-dey, -dee, ree-aw grahn-de]

noun

1. a city in NE Puerto Rico.

2. a river in central Nicaragua, flowing NE to the Caribbean Sea. About 200 miles (320 km) long.

Rio Grande

noun

1. Mexican name: Río Bravo. a river in North America, rising in SW Colorado and flowing southeast to the Gulf of Mexico, forming the border between the US and Mexico. Length: about 3030 km (1885 miles)

2. a port in SE Brazil, in SE Rio Grande do Sul state: serves as the port for Porto Alegre. Pop: 188 000 (2005 est)

Rio Grande

1. River running east from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico, dividing the United States from Mexico.

Example Sentences

Additionally, Noem said the administration is planning to install more "waterborne infrastructure" along the Rio Grande, which makes up more than half of the border between the two countries.

From BBC

The new map would include a redistricting of the Rio Grande Valley and combine two districts in the state capital of Austin currently held by Democrats.

From BBC

A fourth-generation farmer in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, for the past three years he has only been able to plant half of his farm because he doesn't have enough irrigation water.

From BBC

A 29-year veteran of the US Army who retired as a colonel, this Texan - from the overwhelmingly Latino Rio Grande City on the border - believes that it is the protests that have gone too far.

From BBC

The artists and activists, Mexican immigrants in a border town on the Rio Grande, tilt at policies targeting not only their families and neighbors but their bodies — amid sequences of chaotic abandon and stargazing reverie.

From Los Angeles Times