noun, feminine/ʁi.vjɛʁ/plural: rivières
a river (a large, winding stream that flows into a lake, bay, larger river, etc., but not into an ocean or sea)
Related: les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières, perche de rivière, porter de l'eau à la rivière, Trois-Rivières
From Middle French riviere, from Old French riviere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria.