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Definition of ria noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

ria

noun

/ˈriːə/

/ˈriːə/

(specialist)

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a long narrow area of water formed when a river valley floods
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Spanish ría ‘estuary’.

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