waterfall

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The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us.

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  1. noun A steep descent of water from a height; a cascade.

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  • We had had rather a rough scramble after walking through woods and then along the side of the loch, but, coming through more woodland on another stretch of The Way, we had seen birds and wild flowers which enchanted both of us and the sound of the waterfall was a diapason to all this happiness. —  Cold, Lone and Still - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 64
  • We visited the waterfall, which is very high, and in rainy weather very copious. —  Life Of Johnson, Volume 5
  • In this manner, according to the old Norse legends, did Floki discover Iceland; and many other extraordinary things happened under the auspices of the raven CHAPTER XII WATERFALLS, SNOWFIELDS, AND GLACIERS A really fine waterfall is a most fascinating thing. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
  • But that is the ideal of the past belonging to Belinda's waterfall, a trivial, common thing enough, yet one that has a right to its ideal, nevertheless, if we accept the ecstasies of a noted writer upon its magic material. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
  • They were soon stopped by a waterfall, and then the pilgrimage began. —  Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
 

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  1. = Dutch waterval = German wasserfall (cf. Swedish vattenfall, Danish vandfald); as water + fall.
 

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