Thesaurus:body of water
English
Noun
Sense: any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- aqueduct
- aquifer
- bayou
- beck
- bay
- beel (see w:Beel)
- bight
- billabong
- branch
- brook
- burn [⇒ thesaurus]
- canal
- cenote
- channel
- cove
- caldera
- creek
- embayment
- estuary
- falls
- firth
- fjard (see w:fjard)
- fjord
- fleet
- fork
- fountain
- freshet
- frith
- gill
- gulf
- harbor
- harbour
- impoundment
- inlet [⇒ thesaurus]
- kettle lake
- kill
- lade
- lagoon
- lake [⇒ thesaurus]
- lick
- lin
- loch
- lochan
- lock
- lode
- lough
- mere
- mill race
- navigation
- ocean
- oxbow lake
- passage
- polynya
- pond
- pool
- pothole
- puddle
- reach
- reservoir
- ria
- rill
- river [⇒ thesaurus]
- rivulet
- roadstead
- run
- runnel
- sag pond (see w:Sag pond)
- sea
- seaway
- seep
- sink
- slough
- sound
- spring
- strait
- stream [⇒ thesaurus]
- streamlet
- swallet
- tributary
- tarn
- watercourse [⇒ thesaurus]
- waterway
- arroyo
- bourne
- draw
- gilgai
- haor
- playa
- sike
- turlough
- vernal pool (see w:Vernal pool)
- wadi
- wash
- winterbourne
Hypernyms
See also
- Body of water on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- “343. gulf, lake” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “body of water” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.