waterfall
UK/ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/
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Australia/ˈwoːtəfoːl/
waterfall noun: a flow of water over the edge of a cliff. Also the abbreviation of waterfall model.
Noun
waterfall (plural waterfalls)
- A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
- Hello, my love, I heard a kiss from you / Red magic satin playing near too / All through the morning rain I gaze, the sun doesn't shine / Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind1977, Brothers Johnson, “Strawberry Letter 23”, in Right on Time
- A waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc.
- A waterfall of mist came from the open freezer.
- A chart depicting the timing and duration of network requests.
- The action of drinking from a vessel without touching it with the lips, considered more sanitary for a shared vessel.
- Hey man, can I take a waterfall from your bottle?
- A necktie.
- A chignon (hairstyle).
- A beard.
- I found home a dreary place after my long absence; for half the children I had known were now wearing whiskers or waterfalls, […]1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, pages 569–570
- A kind of handstand with chin tucked and back arched.
Verb
waterfall (third-person singular simple present waterfalls, present participle waterfalling, simple past and past participle waterfalled)
- To fall like a waterfall.
- Rain ran off the bill of his fielder's cap and waterfalled in front of his face.1994, Nora Roberts, Private Scandals, page 54
- Zondra, whose dirty-blond hair waterfalled above her head from a colorful tie, gave a snorting, horsey kind of laugh.1999, Jane Yolen with Bruce Coville, Armageddon Summer, page 79
- To drink (something) from a container by pouring it from a height so as not to touch one's lips to the rim.
- Synonym of recycle.
- Synonyms:
- recycle
Proper noun capitalized: Waterfall
Waterfall
- A stylistic art trend for furniture which was popular in the 1930s and 1940s, featuring wooden surfaces and curved edges prominently in its design.
- A barangay of Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
- A barangay of Balingasag, Misamis Oriental, Philippines.
- A barangay of Panabo, Davao del Norte, Philippines.
- A barangay of Kiblawan, Davao del Sur, Philippines.
- A barangay of Sulop, Davao del Sur, Philippines.
- A suburb of Sydney in the Sutherland council area, New South Wales, Australia.
Also used as
waterfall is also the abbreviation of waterfall model.
waterfall meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
waterfall in Hindi
- waterfall-like outpouring
- झरना jharnā
- flow of water over the edge of a cliff
- जलप्रपात jalaprapāt, झरना jharnā
waterfall in Tamil
- flow of water over the edge of a cliff
- அருவி aruvi, நீர்வீழ்ச்சி nīrvīḻcci
- to drink by pouring a liquid from a height
- தூக்கி குடி tūkki kuṭi
waterfall in Marathi
- flow of water over the edge of a cliff
- धबधबा dhabadhbā
waterfall in Urdu
- flow of water over the edge of a cliff
- آبْشار ābśār
More languagesFewer languages
- waterfall in Bengali
- ঝরনা jhorna, জলপ্রপাত jolopropat
- waterfall in Telugu
- జలపాతము jalapātamu
- waterfall in Malayalam
- വെള്ളച്ചാട്ടം veḷḷaccāṭṭaṁ
- waterfall in Kannada
- ಅಬ್ಬಿ abbi, ಜಲಪಾತ jalapāta, ಧಬಧಬೆ dhabadhabe, ಜೋಗು jōgu
- waterfall in Punjabi
- ਝਰਨਾ jharnā
- waterfall in Gujarati
- ધોધ dhodh
- waterfall in Odia
- ଜଳପ୍ରପାତ
- waterfall in Sanskrit
- जलपात jalapāta, जलप्रपात jalaprapāta
- waterfall in Sinhala
- දිය ඇල්ල diya ælla
- waterfall in Nepali
- झरना jharanā
- waterfall in Pashto
- آبشار ābšār, زاوه zāwa, بربړوک barbaṛuk, ګړونګه gaṛunga
- waterfall in Tagalog
- talon
- waterfall in Arabic
- شَلَّال šallāl
- waterfall in Malay
- air terjun, air memancur
- waterfall in Indonesian
- air terjun
- waterfall in Persian
- آبشار âbšâr, فوران favarân
- waterfall in Thai
- น้ำตก náam-dtòk
- waterfall in Vietnamese
- thác nước, thác
- waterfall in Myanmar
- ရေတံခွန် retamhkwan
Examples of waterfall in a sentence
- The band of explorers found a shelter behind the waterfall, which they rested at for three days.
- The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight.
- I stood too close to the waterfall, and I got wet.
Synonyms of waterfall
Forms of waterfall
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | waterfalls |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | waterfalls |
| present participle | waterfalling |
| past participle | waterfalled |
| past | waterfalled |
Origin of waterfall
From Middle English waterfal, waterfalle, from Old English wæterġefeall (“waterfall”), equivalent to water + fall. Cognate with West Frisian wetterfal (“waterfall”), Dutch waterval (“waterfall”), German Wasserfall (“waterfall”), Swedish vattenfall (“waterfall”).
See waterfall.
Words formed from waterfall
Phrases with waterfall
Words that rhyme with waterfall
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- paul
- recall
- tall
- Donegal
- saul
- forestall
- Saint Paul
- all
- appall
- hauler
- maul
- overcall
- overhaul
- scrawl
- withcall
- befall
- brawl
- drawl
- install
- set out one's stall
- sing small
- bawl
- orle
- spall
- sprawl
- squall
- trawl
- withal
- y'all
- acrawl
- awl
- infall
- moneyball
- overall
- pawl
- saule
- Senegal
- shawl
- spawl
- tell all
- yawl
- appal
- asprawl
- at all
- aul
- becrawl
- bescrawl
- besmall
Questions about waterfall
- What does waterfall mean?
- Waterfall means a flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
- What is waterfall in Hindi?
- Waterfall in Hindi is झरना (jharnā), जलप्रपात (jalaprapāt). See Waterfall meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is waterfall?
- Waterfall can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce waterfall?
- Waterfall is pronounced /ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of waterfall?
- The plural of waterfall is waterfalls.
Words near waterfall in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: waterfall (page history and authors); Waterfall (page history and authors); waterfall (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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