Thesaurus results for WATERFALL

waterfall

noun

ˈwȯ-tər-ˌfȯl

as in cascade

a fall of water usually from a great height I used to like to throw sticks in the stream and watch them go over the waterfall

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Recent Examples of waterfall Whereas waterfalls present fish obstacles in rising above their circumstances, five orders and eight families, from South America, Asia, and Australia, have overcome the impossible. —

Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026 Peak waterfall season at Yosemite won’t last long this year, and the prime time for viewing may be right now. —

Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2026 The thermal camera proved to be the key, spotting Molly huddled underneath the waterfall close to where her owner fell. —

Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2026 After a woman fell down a waterfall while hiking, her rescuers couldn’t located her border collie. —

Sydney Page, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for waterfall

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cascade

Noun

This is the palette of the machine-made, that which is inhuman, and Duchamp would drive the point home in Coffee Mill (1911), a tiny painting of a grinder that expels a cascade of brown beans.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Craig Berke, a retired Journal editor who did parts of the trail in 2017 with Kostrzewa, also mentioned Stepstone Falls, as well as another small cascade on the Moosup River in Foster.

— Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal, 6 Apr. 2026