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floodwater

floodwater noun: the water of a flood.

Noun

floodwater (countable and uncountable, plural floodwaters)

  1. The water of a flood.
    • European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59
    • South Yorkshire 2019: The track at Conisbrough is deluged by floodwater. Lines were shut and services were disrupted across Yorkshire and the East Midlands.2020 July 29, Andrew Roden, “ORR demands more action on weather resistance”, in Rail, page 21, photo caption

Examples of floodwater in a sentence

  • The trail is hikeable in summer, but sometimes covered by floodwaters in the winter.
  • The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill.
  • Colleen Kumada-McGowan stands in floodwaters in front of her home in Watsonville on January 9.

All 18 example sentences with floodwater

Forms of floodwater

pluralfloodwaters
alternative formflood water

Origin of floodwater

From flood + water.

Questions about floodwater

What does floodwater mean?
Floodwater means the water of a flood.
What part of speech is floodwater?
Floodwater is a noun.
What is the plural of floodwater?
The plural of floodwater is floodwaters.

Words near floodwater in the dictionary

  1. floodtides
  2. floodtime
  3. floodtimes
  4. floodwall
  5. floodwalls
  6. floodwater
  7. floodwaters
  8. floodway
  9. floodways
  10. floodwood
  11. floody

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