Tigris

[ tahy-gris ]

noun

1. a river in SW Asia, flowing SE from SE Turkey through Iraq, joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab. 1,150 miles (1,850 km) long.

Tigris

/ ˈtaɪɡrɪs /

noun

1. a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing southeast through Baghdad to the Euphrates in SE Iraq, forming the delta of the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows into the Persian Gulf: part of a canal and irrigation system as early as 2400 bc , with many ancient cities (including Nineveh) on its banks. Length: 1900 km (1180 miles)

Example Sentences

You stand on an unsteady pontoon bridge spanning the Tigris River in a township called Adh Dhouloueya.

From The Daily Beast

Bell died at her house by the Tigris in Baghdad in July 1926 at the age of 57.

From The Daily Beast

We have not hatched a perfect democracy on the Tigris, and this we know.

From The Daily Beast

And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, I was by the great river, which is the Tigris.

From Project Gutenberg

Its method of progress is simply to drift down the fairly rapid current of the Tigris as far as is required.

From Project Gutenberg

In this case, you must take them all and throw them by night into the Tigris.

From Project Gutenberg

They relinquished to the Romans five provinces beyond the Tigris.

From Project Gutenberg

Was there not the Euphrates, was there not the Tigris, the Aranes?

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