riparian
C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
Relating to or situated on the bank of a river or stream.
A ribbon of riparian woodland shaded the water and kept it cool for trout.
Law adjective
Relating to the owner of land bordering a river or watercourse.
As a riparian owner she was entitled to fish the stretch flowing past her garden.
Business adjective
Relating to or situated on the bank of a river, and to the rights of landowners bordering it.
As a riparian owner, the mill held rights to abstract water from the passing stream.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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