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tidewater
tide·wa·ter T0207100 (tīd′wô′tər, -wŏt′ər)n.1. Water that inundates land at flood tide.2. Water affected by the tides, especially tidal streams.3. Low coastal land drained by tidal streams.tidewater (ˈtaɪdˌwɔːtə) n1. (Physical Geography) water that advances and recedes with the tide2. (Physical Geography) water that covers land that is dry at low tide3. (Physical Geography) a. coastal land drained by tidal streamsb. (as modifier): tidewater regions. tide•wa•ter (ˈtaɪdˌwɔ tər, -ˌwɒt ər)
n. 1. water affected by the ebb and flow of the tide. 2. the water covering tideland at flood tide. 3. seacoast. [1765–75] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  tidewater - low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streamscoastal plain - a plain adjacent to a coasttidal river, tidal stream, tidewater river, tidewater stream - a stream in which the effects of the tide extend far upstream | | 2. | Tidewater - the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and GeorgiaTidewater regionSouth - the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line |
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tidewater, in U.S. history, that part of the Atlantic coastal plain between the shoreline and the farthest upstream points in rivers reached by oceanic tides. In many cases the fall linefall line,
boundary between an upland region and a coastal plain across which rivers from the upland region drop to the plain as falls or rapids. A fall line is formed in an area where the rivers have eroded away the soft rocks of a coastal plain more quickly than the older
..... Click the link for more information. is given as the western boundary. The tidewater, with its good harbors readily accessible to the ocean, was settled first by European colonists. Later the Southern tidewater became one of the many regions of large plantations as well as an area of important commercial towns.tidewater[′tīd‚wȯd·ər] (oceanography) A body of water, such as a river, affected by tides. Water inundating land at flood tide. tidewater
Words related to tidewaternoun low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streamsRelated Words- coastal plain
- tidal river
- tidal stream
- tidewater river
- tidewater stream
noun the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and GeorgiaSynonymsRelated Words |