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
  • Submarine networks therefore use optical repeaters installed along the cable route to amplify the signals, allowing information to continue across ocean basins.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The Atlantic basin set a record this year for its longest stretch without any hurricanes developing.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of basin
Noun
  • At the time, the flood maps showed that the land the park sat on was at risk but didn’t have his home in the 100-year floodplain, which would have required expensive elevation.
    — Ren Larson, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2026
  • El Adli said the area that crews were digging in is located on what is potentially an ancient floodplain.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of floodplain
Noun
  • The men rushed on to the plain, setting more trees ablaze and hurling rocks.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Temperatures are expected to drop to freezing or below late Thursday night into early Friday morning across much of the plains.
    — Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of plain
Noun
  • Day's gamble paid off, as Sayin found a wide-open Bo Jackson in the flat for a touchdown, putting Ohio State up 10-7.
    — Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • British Vogue’s Chioma Nnadi, meanwhile, gave a pink lady jacket a maximalist feel by pairing it with a denim midiskirt and lace-up flats.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of flat
Noun
  • That raises the possibility of patchy frost, particularly in sheltered valleys and locations where winds relax overnight.
    — Bill Kelly, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The film opens with Tenzing as a boy, gawking at Mount Everest, which looms across the valley like Godzilla.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 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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