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tide-water

tide-water is the alternative form of tidewater.

Meaning of tidewater

Noun

tidewater (countable and uncountable, plural tidewaters)

  1. Water affected by the flow of the tide, especially tidal streams.
    • Their mission in life was to tote bituminous coal out of the mountain fastness of West Virginia and move it west to the gateways of Deepwater, Columbus and Toledo and east to tidewater at Hampton Roads.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 60
  2. The seaboard.
    • She was born Mary Blair Rice, the daughter of a prominent tidewater Virginia family whose roots stretched back to the colonial era.2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 100
  3. (attributive, uncommon) A structure or house with large wraparound porches and hip roofs designed for wet and hot climates.

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Forms of tide-water

pluraltide-waters

Questions about tide-water

What is tide-water the alternative form of?
Tide-water is the alternative form of tidewater.

Words near tide-water in the dictionary

  1. tide wave
  2. tide waves
  3. tide wheel
  4. tide wheels
  5. tide-rode
  6. tide-water
  7. tide-waters
  8. tided
  9. tided over
  10. tidefall
  11. tidefalls

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