estuary
estuary is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. Dana.
- 2.Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. Lyell.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- arm
- armlet
- artesian
- bay
- bayou
- belt
- bight
- broad
- continental
- cove
- covered
- creek
- dam
- dead
- dike
- ditch
- dyke
- fiord
- firth
- fish
- frith
- gulf
- gulph
- gut
- harbor
- hog
- indraught
- inlet
- lacustrine
- lagoon
- lagune
- lake
- land
- lin
- loch
- lough
- mere
- mill
- mouth
- natural
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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