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floodways

floodways is the plural of floodway.

Meaning of floodway

Noun

floodway (plural floodways)

  1. An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected.
    • Since 2005 the governments of Manitoba and Canada have spent $665 million to double the capacity of the floodway and to reinforce bridges, control gates and dikes.2009 March 30, Kirk Johnson, “Permanent Flood Solutions Just Out of Reach for Fargo”, in New York Times

Questions about floodways

What is floodways the plural of?
Floodways is the plural of floodway.

Words near floodways in the dictionary

  1. floodwall
  2. floodwalls
  3. floodwater
  4. floodwaters
  5. floodway
  6. floodways
  7. floodwood
  8. floody
  9. flooey
  10. floof
  11. floofed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: floodways (page history and authors); floodway (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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