Word.ws English Dictionary

water stops

water stops is the plural of water stop.

Meaning of water stop

Noun

water stop (plural water stops)

  1. A place where an athlete can take a break and drink water.
    • Following the Yankee Homecoming road race each year, his shop's small parking lot is the scene of a neighborhood celebration. “I'm an official water stop for the road race,” Boothroyd shares."I love being here."2014, Kathleen M. Downey, Legendary Locals of Newburyport, page 73
  2. A stop in a journey for drinking water or using the restroom.
    • The water stop had no such amenities. It was simply a necessary delay along their route.2014, Paul Lederer, The Reluctant Gun Hand

Questions about water stops

What is water stops the plural of?
Water stops is the plural of water stop.

Words near water stops in the dictionary

  1. water sprite
  2. water sprites
  3. water starwort
  4. water starworts
  5. water stop
  6. water stops
  7. Water Stratford
  8. water strider
  9. water striders
  10. water supplies
  11. water supply

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: water stops (page history and authors); water stop (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “water stops.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/water_stops. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.