Word.ws English Dictionary

deep-water

deep-water adjective: having a great depth of water.

Adjective

deep-water

  1. Having a great depth of water.
    • a deep-water harbour
    • It is intended to develop San Lourenzo^([sic]) into a deep-water port, as Guayaquil is highly unsuitable because of drifting silt banks and a thirty-mile river approach.1957 December, J. G. Alderson, “By Rail Through the Andes in Ecuador”, in Railway Magazine, page 837
  2. Carried out at great depth.
    • deep-water drilling
  3. Located in or near deep ocean waters.
    • a deep-water port
  4. Living at a great depth underwater.

Forms of deep-water

alternative formdeepwater

Words formed from deep-water

Phrases with deep-water

Questions about deep-water

What does deep-water mean?
Deep-water means having a great depth of water.
What part of speech is deep-water?
Deep-water is an adjective.

Words near deep-water in the dictionary

  1. deep-throater
  2. deep-throaters
  3. deep-throating
  4. deep-throats
  5. deep-vein thrombosis
  6. deep-water
  7. deep-water solo
  8. deep-water soloed
  9. deep-water soloes
  10. deep-water soloing
  11. deep-water solos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deep-water (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “deep-water.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/deep-water. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.