Orange River Definition

pronoun

A longest river in South Africa named in honor of the House of Orange-Nassau.

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A river, about 2,100 km (1,305 mi) long, of Lesotho, South Africa, and Namibia flowing southwest, northwest, and west to the Atlantic Ocean. It is used extensively for irrigation.
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Orange River Sentence Examples

  • Crossing the Orange River at this spot in September 1848, Sir Harry noted that it was "a beautiful site for a town," and in the May following the town was founded.

  • The annexation of the Orange River Sovereignty in 1848 followed, finally destroying his hope of maintaining independent native states.

  • The town lies north of the Drakensberg on the Kraai tributary of the Orange river at an elevation of 5831 ft.

  • On every side it is surrounded by British colonies, north by the Orange River Colony, south-west and south by Cape Colony, and east by Natal.

  • Epidemics of smallpox and typhoid occur; and leprosy, imported from the Orange River and Cape Colonies, has taken firm hold on the Basuto, of whom about 9r per too() are sufferers from this disease.

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