Waikato

[ wahy-kah-toh ]

noun

1. a river in central North Island, New Zealand, flowing NW to the Tasman Sea: longest river in New Zealand. 264 miles (425 km) long.

Waikato

/ ˈwaɪˌkɑːtəʊ /

noun

1. the longest river in New Zealand, flowing northwest across North Island to the Tasman Sea. Length: 350 km (220 miles)

Example Sentences

As an emerging teenage prospect, his local selectors in Waikato still had doubts, thinking Roigard had already maximised his potential and peaked.

From BBC

Cane originally joined Suntory Sungoliath last year when he took up a sabbatical option in his Waikato Chiefs contract.

From BBC

Anthropologists Jane Anderson at New York University and Maui Hudson of the University of Waikato in New Zealand have spent the past decade developing a digital tool to help that happen.

From Science Magazine

Half a stone overweight, Donald had been fishing whitebait on the Waikato river external-link when Henry rang him and asked him to join the squad before the semi-finals.

From BBC

Over 17,900 spectators packed Waikato Stadium, which holds just 18,009.

From Seattle Times