Log in or Sign up
  1. freshet love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A sudden overflow of a stream resulting from a heavy rain or a thaw.
  2. n. A stream of fresh water that empties into a body of salt water.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A small stream of fresh water; a brook.
  2. n. A flood or overflowing of a river, by reason of heavy rains or melted snow; an inundation, especially one of a comparatively moderate extent: same as fresh, n., 1.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.
  2. n. poetic A small stream, especially one flowing into the sea.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A stream of fresh water.
  2. n. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow

Etymologies

  1. From Old French freschete, a diminutive of fres ("fresh") via its feminine form fresche. (Wiktionary)

Examples

Show 10 more examples...

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. flood

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. flowing
  1. flow

same context (11)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. citroen
  2. mobbing
  1. mudslide
  2. smiter
  1. snowstorm
  2. upsurge
  1. cosmopolite
  2. desertification
  1. stick-pin
  2. years.set
  1. musket-shot

reverse dictionary (8)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. high-water mark
  1. landflood
  1. spate
  1. fresh
  1. flood
  1. washout
  1. setback
  1. tide

tags (2)

Free-form, user-generated categorization

  1. brook
  1. ccvccvc

Log in or sign up to add your own tag.

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘freshet’.

More lists containing ‘freshet’

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • bilby
    If I could see the weedy mussels
    Crusting the wrecked and rotting hulls,
    Hear once again the hungry crying
    Overhead, of the wheeling gulls;
    Feel once again the shanty straining
    Under the turning of the tide,
    Fear once again the rising freshet,
    Dread the bell in the fog outside,
    I should be happy!
    - Edna St. Vincent Millay, 'Exiled'. Sep 21, 2009

  • yarb The river-bed was here about a mile and a half broad and entirely covered with shingle over which the river ran in many winding channels, looking, when seen from above, like a tangled skein of ribbon, and glistening in the sun. We knew that it was liable to very sudden and heavy freshets; but even had we not known it, we could have seen it by the snags of trees, which must have been carried long distances, and by the mass of vegetable and mineral debris which was banked against their lower side, showing that at times the whole river-bed must be covered with a roaring torrent many feet in depth and of ungovernable fury.

    - Samuel Butler, Erewhon Jul 17, 2008

Tweets

Looking for tweets for freshet.

‘freshet’ has been looked up 2405 times, loved by 2 people, added to 21 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 13.