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HEADWATER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does headwater mean?
• HEADWATER (noun)
The noun HEADWATER has 1 sense:
1. the source of a river
Familiarity information: HEADWATER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The source of a river
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Context example:
the headwaters of the Nile
Hypernyms ("headwater" is a kind of...):
beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)
Context examples
He wished, he said, to ask Professor Challenger whether the results to which he had alluded in his remarks had been obtained during a journey to the headwaters of the Amazon made by him two years before.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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