TIDEWATER Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

tidewater

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as in bottomland

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Recent Examples of tidewater Here are a few of our favorites from the West: Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska Glacier Bay National Park, in southeast Alaska, is a jaw-dropping wilderness where massive tidewater glaciers calve into icy waters and humpback whales surface with breathtaking grace. —

USA Today, 11 June 2025 The Potomac, one of the good Eastern black-bass rivers, offers some 400 miles of fair-to-excellent fishing-mostly smallmouths upstream from Great Falls on the outskirts of Washington, D. C., and largemouths in the tidewater downstream. —

Arthur Grahame, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2025 This, of course, was all integrated into Wright’s classic style: The home is made from brick and red tidewater cypress, with concrete floors and plaster ceilings. —

Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025 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

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Go for a Hike at Woodlands Conservancy Hike through one of the region’s last remaining stands of bottomland hardwood forest at the Woodlands Preserve.

— Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025
Whitmer, in November 2020, sent notice of her intention to revoke the state's 1953 easement with the company allowing the pipelines underwater on the Straits of Mackinac bottomlands.

— Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 17 Dec. 2025