lower reaches

English

Noun

lower reaches (uncountable)

1. (This entry is a translation hub.) The lowest or most southerly extremes of something.
   • 2018 November 18, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 1 Croatia”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     they responded with courage and character as the clock ticked down to rescue glory and a place in Portugal from the prospect of relegation into the lower reaches of the Uefa Nations League.

Translations

the part of a river that is near where it ends

• Azerbaijani: ayaq (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 下游 (zh) (xiàyóu), 下流 (zh) (xiàliú)

• Finnish: alajuoksu (fi)
• German: Unterlauf (de) m
• Hungarian: alsó szakasz/folyás, (figuratively) alsó szint
• Japanese: 下流 (ja) (かりゅう, karyū), 川下 (ja) (かわしも, kawashimo)
• Korean: 하류 (ko) (haryu), 물아래 (ko) (murarae)
• Romanian: aval (ro) n
• Russian: низо́вье (ru) (nizóvʹje)
• Vietnamese: hạ lưu, hạ nguồn

See also

• upper reaches
• middle reaches