Stour.
A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.
Meaning & usage
A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.
A river in Kent, England, running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay.
A river in Essex and Suffolk, England, flowing into the North Sea at Harwich.
A river in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.
A river in Staffordshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Severn.
Where this word comes from
Most of the rivers' names are from the root of stour (“powerful, tall, large”), though some may have been borrowed through and influenced by Celtic (compare Welsh dŵr (“water”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.