# riverrun

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #84,689

## Definitions
1. The course a river shapes through a landscape

## Etymology
From Finnegans Wake, a novel written by James Joyce. First sentence of the novel: Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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