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body of water

body of water noun: any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as an ocean, a river, a lake or a bay.

Noun

body of water (plural bodies of water)

  1. Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as an ocean, a river, a lake or a bay.
    Synonyms:
    water body
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see body, of, water.

body of water meaning in Bengali, Gujarati, Sanskrit and Tagalog

body of water in Bengali

significant accumulation of water
জলাশয় jolaśoẏ

body of water in Gujarati

body of water, reservoir
અખાત akhāt

body of water in Sanskrit

body of water
अपस् ápas

body of water in Tagalog

significant accumulation of water
anyong-tubig
More languagesFewer languages
body of water in Malay
jasad air
body of water in Indonesian
perairan, badan air
body of water in Vietnamese
thuỷ vực, vùng nước

Synonyms of body of water

Forms of body of water

pluralbodies of water

Questions about body of water

What does body of water mean?
Body of water means any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as an ocean, a river, a lake or a bay.
What is body of water in Bengali?
Body of water in Bengali is জলাশয় (jolaśoẏ). See Body of water meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is body of water?
Body of water is a noun.
What is the plural of body of water?
The plural of body of water is bodies of water.

Words near body of water in the dictionary

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  2. body odours
  3. Body of a Nation
  4. Body of Christ
  5. body of me
  6. body of water
  7. body of work
  8. body pack
  9. body packing
  10. body paint
  11. body painter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: body of water (page history and authors); અખાત (Gujarati) (page history and authors); अपस् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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