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TIDEWATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tidewater mean? 

TIDEWATER (noun)
  The noun TIDEWATER has 2 senses:

1. low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streamsplay

2. the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgiaplay

  Familiarity information: TIDEWATER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TIDEWATER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("tidewater" is a kind of...):

coastal plain (a plain adjacent to a coast)

Meronyms (parts of "tidewater"):

tidal river; tidal stream; tidewater river; tidewater stream (a stream in which the effects of the tide extend far upstream)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Tidewater; Tidewater region

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Tidewater" is a part of...):

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)


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