Definition of tidewater in English:

1Water brought or affected by tides.

1. 1.1North American An area that is affected by tides.
   as modifier a large area of tidewater country

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The original settlers, such as the Jefferson family, moved westward because families like theirs planted tobacco in tidewater Virginia and exhausted the soil.
   • Hubbard Glacier is the largest tidewater glacier in North America.
   • American Black Ducks are historically found in forested wetlands, tidewater areas, and coastal marshes of eastern North America.
   • A second group of migrants came from a different ‘hearth’: the tidewater region of South Carolina and Georgia.
   • Within a year he had moved into the house and for the next fifty-two years oversaw one of the most successful tidewater plantations in Virginia.
   • Avey had heard the stories from her aunt when, as a child, she spent a month each summer at Cuney's home in Tatem, one of the South Carolina tidewater islands.
   • Those from the coastal states came from the hilly, interior backcountry rather than the coastal tidewater areas.
   • The tidewater, with its old colonial heritage, held a symbolic place as the state's most influential region, but by 1860 it held neither the most people nor the most wealth.
   • One bay had one tidewater glacier, one had two, and two had five each (College and Harriman fjords).
   • You'll kayak through a maze of fjords and tidal channels and through the ice-encrusted Cordillera Darwin and the most active tidewater glaciers in the world.
   • Malaria profoundly affected public health in the southern tidewater region, and it was a primary reason colonists in the Chesapeake Bay region lived shorter lives than did New Englanders.
   • The builder of Temple Heights, Richard Thomas Brownrigg, a well-to-do planter and businessman, was a native of the colonial tidewater city of Edenton, on North Carolina's Albemarle Sound.
   • In this remote tidewater county where African Americans outnumbered whites, Turner and a group of slaves killed more than fifty whites over a two-day period.
   • Nineteenth-century urban and industrial development of the eastern seaboard bypassed tidewater Maryland and left its few towns, Chestertown among them, distinctive for their isolation.
   • As in the Canadian campaign, returning soldiers and deserters carried smallpox home with them, sparking outbreaks that lasted well into 1777 in tidewater Virginia and Maryland.
   • The Virginia tidewater region and the coastal south were also settled largely by the Scots-Irish.
   • The Mattaponi are decedents of Chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas and ruler of large portions of what is now tidewater Virginia.
   • Visitors will also find historic breeds of animals and crops typical of tidewater Virginia.
   • The unit was noted not only for its hard-fighting abilities, but also for its varied and far-flung field of service, stretching from tidewater Virginia all the way to the plains of Texas.
   • The first part of the trip explores the coast, a region of emerald rain forests, deep fjords, rich sealife, and tidewater glaciers that crumble into icy seas.

Coastal regions of eastern Virginia where tidal water flows up the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, James, and smaller rivers. Early-17th-century British settlement was focused here.