"riparian" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɹʌɪˈpɛːɹɪən/ [UK], /ɹɪˈpɛːɹɪən/ [UK] Audio: en-au-riparian.ogg [Australia] Forms: more riparian [comparative], most riparian [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rīpārius (“relating to a riverbank”) + -an. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|rīpārius||relating to a riverbank}} Latin rīpārius (“relating to a riverbank”), {{suffix|en||an}} + -an Head templates: {{en-adj}} riparian (comparative more riparian, superlative most riparian)
  1. Of or relating to the bank of a river or stream. Derived forms: hydroriparian, mesoriparian, nonriparian, pseudoriparian, riparian buffer, riparian right, riparianism, riparianness, semiriparian, xeroriparian Related terms: riverain, riverine Translations (of or pertaining to a riverbank): крайречен (krajrečen) (Bulgarian), jokivarsi- (Finnish), rivulaire (French), ártéri (Hungarian), ripario [masculine] (Italian), ripaiolo [feminine] (Italian), ripicolo [feminine] (Italian), ripestre [feminine] (Italian), elverelatert (Norwegian), ribeirinho [masculine] (Portuguese), ribeirinha [feminine] (Portuguese), ripária [feminine] (Portuguese), ripícola [feminine] (Portuguese), ribereño (Spanish), strand- (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-riparian-en-adj-7HBPKvoj

Noun

IPA: /ɹʌɪˈpɛːɹɪən/ [UK], /ɹɪˈpɛːɹɪən/ [UK] Audio: en-au-riparian.ogg [Australia] Forms: riparians [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rīpārius (“relating to a riverbank”) + -an. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|rīpārius||relating to a riverbank}} Latin rīpārius (“relating to a riverbank”), {{suffix|en||an}} + -an Head templates: {{en-noun}} riparian (plural riparians)
  1. (chiefly law) A person or other entity that lives or owns property along the shore of a river. Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-riparian-en-noun-D~tOeEMd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -an Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 67 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 26 74 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -an: 15 85 Topics: law

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.