headwaters
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Canada/ˈhɛdˌwɑtɝz/
headwaters noun: the source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
Noun
headwaters pl (plural only)
- The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- ... but when his brows began to wrinkle with time, and he stood alone, the last of his family, and his particular tribe, the few Delawares, who yet continued about the head-waters of their river, gave him the mournful appellation of Mohegan.1823, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers
- Driver Thornhill beckoned me across the cab and pointed out some two miles ahead as we looked across the headwaters of the Eden Valley, the summit cabin at Ais Gill itself, with the summit point and altitude conspicuously indicated.1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82
headwaters meaning in Tagalog and Malay
headwaters in Tagalog
- the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river
- inantubig
headwaters in Malay
- the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river
- hulu
Forms of headwaters
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Origin of headwaters
From head + waters.
Questions about headwaters
- What does headwaters mean?
- Headwaters means the source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- What is headwaters in Tagalog?
- Headwaters in Tagalog is inantubig. See Headwaters meaning in Tagalog.
- What part of speech is headwaters?
- Headwaters is a noun.
- How do you pronounce headwaters?
- Headwaters is pronounced /ˈhɛdˌwɑtɝz/ (Canada).
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