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surface water

surface water noun: water collecting on the ground or in a stream, river, lake, sea or ocean, as opposed to groundwater.

Noun

surface water (countable and uncountable, plural surface waters)

  1. Water collecting on the ground or in a stream, river, lake, sea or ocean, as opposed to groundwater.

surface water meaning in Tamil and Kannada

surface water in Tamil

நில மேலோட்ட நீர், மேற்பரப்புநீர்

surface water in Kannada

ಮೇಲ್ನೀರು

Forms of surface water

pluralsurface waters

Questions about surface water

What does surface water mean?
Surface water means water collecting on the ground or in a stream, river, lake, sea or ocean, as opposed to groundwater.
What is surface water in Tamil?
Surface water in Tamil is நில மேலோட்ட நீர், மேற்பரப்புநீர். See Surface water meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is surface water?
Surface water is a noun.
What is the plural of surface water?
The plural of surface water is surface waters.

Words near surface water in the dictionary

  1. surface streets
  2. surface structure
  3. surface structures
  4. surface tension
  5. surface tensions
  6. surface water
  7. surface waters
  8. surface web
  9. surface-active
  10. surface-conduction electron-emitter display
  11. surface-conduction electron-emitter displays

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surface water (page history and authors); surface water (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); surface water (Kannada 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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