Great Ouse

proper noun

A river in England, which flows from Northamptonshire, through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, to The Wash and the North Sea.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A river in England, which flows from Northamptonshire, through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, to The Wash and the North Sea.

    Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there.

    1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 223, about Hemingford Grey
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APA

Great Ouse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Great%20Ouse

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