Dictionary entry details
• BODY OF WATER (noun)
Meaning:
The part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
body of water; water
Context examples:
they invaded our territorial waters / they were sitting by the water's edge
Hypernyms ("body of water" is a kind of...):
thing (a separate and self-contained entity)
Meronyms (substance of "body of water"):
H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)
Domain category:
lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body of water"):
backwater (a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam)
ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)
offing (the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area)
polynya (a stretch of open water surrounded by ice (especially in Arctic seas))
pool; puddle (a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid)
sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
seven seas (an informal expression for all of the oceans of the world)
shallow; shoal (a stretch of shallow water)
sound (a large ocean inlet or deep bay)
stream; watercourse (a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth)
territorial waters (the waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction)
falls; waterfall (a steep descent of the water of a river)
mid-water (the water that is well below the surface but also well above the bottom)
briny; main (any very large body of (salt) water)
bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)
channel (a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels)
drink (any large deep body of water)
estuary (the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix)
flowage (a body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area)
crossing; ford (a shallow area in a stream that can be forded)
gulf (an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay)
high sea; international waters (the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation)
inlet; recess (an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands))
lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
waterway (a navigable body of water)
Holonyms ("body of water" is a part of...):
hydrosphere (the watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor)
Earth's surface; surface (the outermost level of the land or sea)
