Euphratesnoun
/juːˈfreɪ.tiːz //juːˈfreɪ.t̬iːz/also Euphrates River, /juːˌfreɪ.tiːz ˈrɪv.ər//juːˌfreɪ.t̬iːz ˈrɪv.ɚ/a long river in western Asia that was one of the two great rivers of the ancient region of Mesopotamia:
The Garden of Eden was supposedly somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
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- The Tigris and Euphrates are the most dammed rivers in the world so there is tremendous water use all along them.
- At their outdoor mosque along the Euphrates, a thousand people attended an afternoon sermon.
- How far from the Persian Gulf do the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet?
- He lives in Nasiriya, a city on the Euphrates River.
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Watercourses & waterfalls
- arroyo
- barrage
- bayou
- beck
- billabong
- brook
- burn
- creek
- downriver
- flume
- ghat
- headwater
- Mississippi
- R, r
- rapids
- sluice
- spate
- upriver
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- watershed
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Ancient history: before 500 AD