Definition of "Severn"

Severn

/ˈsɛv.ə(ɹ)n/

proper noun
1. A river of England and Wales that flows into the Bristol Channel.
  Quotations
  There twice a day the Severn fills,⁠The salt sea-water passes by,⁠And hushes half the babbling Wye,And makes a silence in the hills.
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], Canto XIX, page 32
2. A long river in northern Ontario which flows into Hudson Bay.
3. A short river in central Ontario which flows into Lake Huron.
4. A number of other rivers in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
5. A township in Ontario, Canada, created in 1994 on the amalgamation of several smaller communities.
6. A census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.
7. A small town in Northampton County, North Carolina, United States.
8. A surname.