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tidewater

 
Dictionary: tide·wa·ter   (tīd''tər, -wŏt'ər) pronunciation
n.
  1. Water that inundates land at flood tide.
  2. Water affected by the tides, especially tidal streams.
  3. Low coastal land drained by tidal streams.

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US Military Dictionary: tidewater
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n. 1. water brought or affected by tides.

2. an area that is affected by tides: a large area of tidewater country.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

 
Columbia Encyclopedia: tidewater
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tidewater, in U.S. history, that part of the Atlantic coastal plain between the shoreline and the farthest upstream points in rivers reached by oceanic tides. In many cases the fall line is given as the western boundary. The tidewater, with its good harbors readily accessible to the ocean, was settled first by European colonists. Later the Southern tidewater became one of the many regions of large plantations as well as an area of important commercial towns.


WordNet: tidewater
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams


Translations: Tidewater
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - tidevand

Nederlands (Dutch)
vloedwater, kuststreek

Français (French)
n. - (eaux) de marée

Deutsch (German)
n. - Flutwasser, den Gezeiten unterworfenes Gewässer

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πλημμυρίδα

Italiano (Italian)
bagnasciuga

Português (Portuguese)
n. - costa marítima (f), água de maré (f)

Русский (Russian)
приливная вода, (амер.) водное пространство, (амер.) морской берег

Español (Spanish)
n. - agua de marea, tierras bajas del litoral

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tidvatten, tidvattenområde (am.)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
潮水, 沿海低洼地区

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 潮水, 沿海低窪地區

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 조수, 조수의 영향을 받는 해안 저지

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 潮位水, 海岸地方, 潮水

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ألمياه التي تتقدم وتنسحب الى شاطئ البحر نتيجه للمد والجزر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מי-גיאות, מי-שיטפון, איזור חופי נמוך‬


 
 

 

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