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語源

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”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈstaʊəɹ/
• (East Anglia) IPA: /ˈstʊəɹ/, /ˈstaʊɹ/

固有名詞

Stour

1. A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.
2. A river in Kent, England, running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay.
3. A river in Essex and Suffolk, England, flowing into the North Sea at Harwich.
   • 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, page 37:

     The Stour is at its lowest ebb, and the sheen of the flats makes it difficult to tell where ground ends and water begins, out in the bay.

4. A river in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.
5. A river in Staffordshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Severn.

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