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Tiber

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Ti·ber  (tbr)
A river of central Italy flowing about 406 km (252 mi) south and southwest through Rome to the Tyrrhenian Sea at Ostia.

Tiber [ˈtaɪbə]
n
(Placename) a river in central Italy, rising in the Tuscan Apennines and flowing south through Rome to the Tyrrhenian Sea. Length: 405 km (252 miles) Ancient name Tiberis [ˈtiːbərɪs] Italian name Tevere
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Noun1.TiberTiber - a river of central Italy; flows through Rome to the Tyrrhenian Sea
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Tiber [ˈtaɪbəʳ] NTíber m
Tiber
nTiber m
Tiber [ˈtaɪbəʳ] n the Tiberil Tevere
Tiber [ˈtaɪbəʳ] n the Tiberil Tevere


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When it became known to the Britons on the shore of the yellow Tiber that their intelligent compatriot, Mr Sparkler, was made one of the Lords of their Circumlocution Office, they took it as a piece of news with which they had no nearer concern than with any other piece of news--any other Accident or Offence--in the English papers.
In that land are mountains far higher than the Alban mountains; the vast Roman Campagna, a hundred miles long and full forty broad, is really small compared to the United States of America; the Tiber, that celebrated river of ours, which stretches its mighty course almost two hundred miles, and which a lad can scarcely throw a stone across at Rome, is not so long, nor yet so wide, as the American Mississippi--nor yet the Ohio, nor even the Hudson.
Why, you see, he has a good understanding with the shepherds in the plains, the fishermen of the Tiber, and the smugglers of the coast.
 
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