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tidewater

noun

Definition of tidewaternext
as in bottomland

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Recent Examples of tidewater Once a giant excavator bit into the levee to breach it, the tribe welcomed tidewater onto the land for the first time in over a century. — John Ryan, NPR, 3 May 2026 Tracy Arm, southeast of Juneau, is a roughly 30-mile (50-kilometer) fjord that features two tidewater glaciers — the North and South Sawyer — and wildlife, including seals and bears. — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026 The boat ride includes a visit to two tidewater glaciers, Beloit and Blackstone, as well as numerous waterfalls. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Feb. 2026 The Potomac River stretches for 380 miles and four states, starting in the Alleghany Mountains of West Virginia and following into the tidewaters of the Chesapeake Bay at Point Lookout, Maryland. — Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tidewater
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tidewater
  1. bottomland
  2. basin
  3. floodplain
  4. plain
  5. flat
  6. valley
  7. fen
Noun
  • Covering 3,652 acres along the Wabash River, the Wabashiki Fish and Wildlife Area stretches across prairies, bottomland forests, and wetlands restored from farmland in 2010.
    — Brian Garrido, Midwest Living, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park conserves nearly 13,000 acres of rare hardwood bottomland along the Mississippi River, including eerie bald cypress swamp.
    — CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
Definition of bottomland
Noun
  • The flood also broke through several hydropower dams in the Bhote Koshi river basin.
    — Tarun Gopalakrishnan, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Eighty percent of Colombia’s population lives within the Magdalena basin.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of basin
Noun
  • Sediment cores from Little Packer Lake, in the Sacramento River floodplain, record floods of the same magnitude about every century or two going back a thousand years.
    — Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The funding also includes more than $235,784 through FEMA’s Community Assistance Program – State Support Services Element to fund floodplain management practices.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of floodplain
Noun
  • The plains were a far smoother ride, and both our joints and the Jeep’s suspension settled down to coast over kilometres of unbroken grassland.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Animals started tracking across the plain, their eyes glinting in the flashlights Cordova and Heimann swept back and forth.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of plain
Noun
  • With its octagonal clusters of flats arranged around a central water tower that looks like a fist raised against the sky, the neighborhood doesn’t have much spirit of community.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The actor could have settled for a pair of basic black flats and the outfit still would have been great.
    — María Munsuri, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of flat
Noun
  • The brain’s surface has ridges and valleys, and CTE tangles are found in the depths of those valleys, called the cortical sulci, and surround blood vessels.
    — Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Everything was briefly silent, and then the valley filled with the white noise of rolling tires.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of valley
Noun
  • The wind reaches the fens of eastern England before the light does, moving over the marshes in long gray sweeps.
    — JP Mangalindan, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Poison sumac is typically found in fens and indicates wet soil, MSU said.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of fen

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