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Plural of watershed

regular plural

The plural of watershed is watersheds.

Forms of watershed

Singularwatershed /ˈwɔːtəʃɛd/
Pluralwatersheds
Countablecountable

Watersheds in a sentence

  • Generally speaking, the bluebelt is a stretch of watersheds that stretches along the edge of the Greenbelt.2018 May 26, “Green Leader Mike Schreiner pledges to expand Greenbelt into 'bluebelt'”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 01 Dec…. From the entry bluebelt
  • Barcoo rot is a dreaded infection in the Barcoo and Thomson watersheds and it spreads voraciously in the humid summer months.2009, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses, page 225. From the entry Barcoo rot
  • Several published data sets have been collected to evaluate the occurrence of a first flush of pollutants from urban watersheds.2005, Allen P. Davis, Richard H. McCuen, Stormwater Management for Smart Growth, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry first flush
  • How has ramping up to the scale of whole watersheds, and so-called megasheds, affected the way scientists think about and execute their crucial experimental work?2004, Sally Duncan, Technology and meaning in natural resource management: the story-making role of GIS in the CLAMS project. From the entry megashed
  • Two-acre watersheds are constructed on three representative research sites, each characteristic of one main soil-vegetation complex found in saline upland and panspot ranges.1971, United States, “ARS”, in Agricultural Research, volume 41, number 176, Service, page 51. From the entry panspot

Meaning of watershed

  1. noun The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
  2. noun A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
  3. noun A critical point marking a change in course or development.

Full definition of watershed

Questions about the plural of watershed

What is the plural of watershed?
The plural of watershed is watersheds.
Is watershed countable?
Watershed is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: watershed (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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