Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Water that inundates land at flood tide.
- n. Water affected by the tides, especially tidal streams.
- n. Low coastal land drained by tidal streams.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams
- n. the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia
Examples
“He gets mail as an alumnus of the Citadel, was raised in tidewater Carolinas, claims to be a Rear”
“A tough question to answer, but I don't think it can get any better than fishing for chinook salmon in tidewater.”
“I should note while we're talking about President Bush, I should mention that right behind me here in the tidewater is the aircraft carrier the George H.W. Bush.”
“You can read more at www. freebiegas.com or search 'tidewater'.”
“Some changes are obvious in Kenai Fjords National Park, a popular destination south of Anchorage known for its ice-capped peaks, tidewater glaciers and abundant marine life.”
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“Natives of the tidewater, however, have been known to carry them forever in their hearts, giving birth to sightings just about anywhere in the world these Chesapeake people choose to travel.”
“The modeled their home on a historic property in the tidewater region of Maryland.”
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“But after discussing the plan with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other agencies, he says, regulators abandoned it because the aerators could hurt an endangered fish, the tidewater goby.”
“That sure as hell didn't stop PETA from having a very large HQ in the tidewater right there where a wetland could be.”
“It is warning that waters are rising in the Virginia tidewater region.8.01pm ET: While I took a break from the liveblogging hotseat earlier, I went out for a walk around Tribeca, where I live, and down to the shore of the Hudson.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tidewater’.
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Times and Tides
Words pertaining to the oceans' tides; words describing seasons or portions of time that contain the searchable string *tide.
*tide, no-tide, tidewater, amphidromic, tide, tidal, cotidal, noontide, Yuletide, eventide, Whitsuntide, Passiontide and 99 more...
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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Written on Water
An eclectic list of words pertaining to and describing water.
"...I am the faithful husband of the rain,
I love the water of wells and springs
and the taste of roofs in the...water, rain, cistern, thirst, dead-water, eddy-water, surge, flood, ebb, fluid, flow, liquor amnii and 202 more...
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Maryland
Maryland, maryland, Baltimore, Annapolis, Anne Arundell, Province of Maryland, Anne Arundel County, Battle of the Severn, Charles Calvert, ..., Benedict Leonard ..., Frederick Calvert..., Henry Harford and 37 more...
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liminal words
transformational, entryway words: thresh(hold), fresh relief
liminal, sill, threshold, aletheia, inscape, adit, introit, maze, pore, porism, portal, port and 114 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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Sea Words
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