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watermills

watermills is the plural 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

Questions about watermills

What is watermills the plural of?
Watermills is the plural of watermill.

Words near watermills in the dictionary

  1. watermilfoils
  2. watermill
  3. watermiller
  4. watermillers
  5. watermilling
  6. watermills
  7. watermint
  8. watermints
  9. watermite
  10. watermites
  11. watermole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: watermills (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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