bayounoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbaɪ.uː/us/ˈbaɪ.uː/(in the southern US) an area of slowly moving water at the side of the main river
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Watercourses & waterfalls
- arroyo
- barrage
- beck
- billabong
- brook
- burn
- creek
- downriver
- Euphrates
- ghat
- gully
- headwater
- Mississippi
- rapids
- rivulet
- sluice
- spate
- upriver
- watercourse
- watershed
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Examples from literature
- About five in the afternoon we gathered on the bank of the bayou.
- He pointed down the bayou toward the river.
- In these forests there are numerous bayous that form a net-work converting the land into a series of islands.
- Tall palms sometimes grew along the bayous, for the country is half tropic.
- The bayou in the rear must have topped flood level.