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saltwater

saltwater is the alternative form of salt water.

Meaning of salt water

Noun

salt water (countable and uncountable, plural salt waters)

  1. Any water containing a significant amount of dissolved salt or salts.

Adjective

saltwater (not comparable)

  1. New Keynesian or Keynesian, in reference to macroeconomics and economics departments on the East Coast and West Coast of the United States of America.
    • Sweetwater and Saltwater economists tend to differ on policy issues.2004, Arnold Kling, Learning Economics, 1st edition, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 29
    • These findings suggest that the divide between fresh and saltwater departments has all but disappeared. The ideological battle is over.2007, David Colander, The Making of an Economist, Redux, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 228

Proper noun capitalized: Saltwater

Saltwater

  1. A locality in the MidCoast council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Antonyms of saltwater

Forms of saltwater

pluralsaltwaters

Origin of saltwater

From Middle English saltwater, salte water, equivalent to salt + water. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Soaltwoater (“saltwater”), West Frisian sâltwetter (“saltwater”), Dutch zoutwater (“saltwater”), German Low German Soltwater (“saltwater”), German Salzwasser (“saltwater”), Danish saltvand (“saltwater”), Swedish saltvatten (“saltwater”), Icelandic saltvatn (“saltwater”).

Words formed from saltwater

Phrases with saltwater

Questions about saltwater

What does saltwater mean?
Saltwater means new Keynesian or Keynesian, in reference to macroeconomics and economics departments on the East Coast and West Coast of the United States of America.
What is saltwater the alternative form of?
Saltwater is the alternative form of salt water.
What part of speech is saltwater?
Saltwater can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near saltwater in the dictionary

  1. saltsprays
  2. saltstone
  3. saltstones
  4. saltus
  5. saltuses
  6. saltwater
  7. saltwater crocodile
  8. saltwater crocodiles
  9. Saltwater River
  10. saltwater soap
  11. saltwater soaps

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