groundwater
groundwater noun: water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.
Noun
groundwater (countable and uncountable, plural groundwaters)
- Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.
- The pH in water of the hillside soils varied between 3.1 and 6.1 with a mean of 4.2. The pattern of pH variation is complex and does not clearly relate either to cultivation or occupation. The most consistent, though weak, correlation appears to be between higher pH and flushes or bogs, which...1995, Olwyn Owen, Christopher Lowe, Kebister: The Four-thousand-year-old Story, page 45
- Research has shown bone apatite to undergo chemical exchange with carbonates in either vadose water or groundwater.2003, B. B. Huckell, C. Vance Haynes, “The Ventana Complex: New Dates and New Ideas on Its Place in Early Holocene Western Prehistory”, in American Antiquity, volume 68, number 2, page 357
groundwater meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Kannada
groundwater in Hindi
- Water existing beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers
- भूजल bhūjal
groundwater in Tamil
- நிலத்தடி நீர்
groundwater in Marathi
- Water existing beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers
- भूजल bhūjal
groundwater in Kannada
- Water existing beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers
- ಅಂತರ್ಜಲ antarjala
More languagesFewer languages
- groundwater in Gujarati
- ભૂગર્ભજળ bhūgarbhajaḷ, ભૂજળ bhūjaḷ
- groundwater in Tagalog
- tubig-lupa
- groundwater in Arabic
- مِيَاه جَوْفِيَّة miyāh jawfiyya
- groundwater in Malay
- air tanah, air bawah tanah, air bumi
- groundwater in Indonesian
- air tanah
- groundwater in Thai
- น้ำบาดาล náam-baa-daan
- groundwater in Vietnamese
- nước ngầm
Examples of groundwater in a sentence
- The state of the groundwater is monitored at various boreholes in the area.
- Uncontaminated groundwater is found upgradient of a contamination source.
- Lithium mining, for example, is now poisoning rivers and depleting groundwater from Tibet to Bolivia.
Forms of groundwater
| plural | groundwaters |
|---|---|
| alternative form | ground water |
Origin of groundwater
From ground + water.
Words formed from groundwater
Phrases with groundwater
Questions about groundwater
- What does groundwater mean?
- Groundwater means water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.
- What is groundwater in Hindi?
- Groundwater in Hindi is भूजल (bhūjal). See Groundwater meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is groundwater?
- Groundwater is a noun.
- What is the plural of groundwater?
- The plural of groundwater is groundwaters.
Words near groundwater in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: groundwater (page history and authors); groundwater (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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