NATURAL DEPRESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does natural depression mean? 

• NATURAL DEPRESSION (noun)
  The noun NATURAL DEPRESSION has 1 sense:

1. a sunken or depressed geological formation

  Familiarity information: NATURAL DEPRESSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATURAL DEPRESSION (noun)

Meaning:

A sunken or depressed geological formation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

natural depression; depression

Hypernyms ("natural depression" is a kind of...):

formation; geological formation ((geology) the geological features of the earth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "natural depression"):

basin (a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it)

bed; bottom (a depression forming the ground under a body of water)

crater (a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb)

hole; hollow (a depression hollowed out of solid matter)

lowland (low level country)

sink; sinkhole; swallow hole (a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof)

deep; oceanic abyss; trench (a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor)

trough (a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed))

vale; valley (a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river)

Antonym:

natural elevation (a raised or elevated geological formation)