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water mill

water mill is the alternative spelling of watermill.

Meaning of watermill

Noun

watermill (plural watermills)

  1. The machine or device itself.
    • Near-synonym: water engine
    Synonyms:
    water engine
  2. The machine and the building that houses it, considered as a unit.
    • Upstream from the house is a watermill, cased in gleaming white weather-boarding, which has been restored to working order. Near by is the water-driven turbine which [Rudyard] Kipling had installed in 1902 to light his mansion with electricity.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 98

Proper noun capitalized: Water Mill

Water Mill

  1. A hamlet and census-designated place in Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.
    • New York State had two ZIP codes in the top 10 nationally, both in the Hamptons, famous for its high-end beachfront properties. The most expensive ZIP in the state was 11962 (primarily the village of Sagaponack), with a median of $5.995 million, followed by 11976 (mainly Water Mill), a few miles...2024 November 28, Josh Ocampo, “Expensive ZIP Codes Have Something in Common”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2024

Forms of water mill

pluralwater mills

Origin of water mill

From water + mill.

Questions about water mill

What does water mill mean?
Water mill means a hamlet and census-designated place in Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.
What is water mill the alternative spelling of?
Water mill is the alternative spelling of watermill.
What part of speech is water mill?
Water mill is a proper noun.

Words near water mill in the dictionary

  1. water memory
  2. water meter
  3. water meters
  4. water mice
  5. water milfoil
  6. water mill
  7. water millet
  8. water mills
  9. water mint
  10. water mints
  11. water mite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: water mill (page history and authors); Water Mill (page history and authors); watermill (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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