tidewater

noun

Definition of tidewaternext
as in bottomland

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Recent Examples of tidewater The five-hour Valdez trip is the shortest of three kayaking day trips Anadyr offers—the others visit Columbia, the second-largest tidewater glacier on the continent, and Shoup—along with multiday kayak camping trips. — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025 The 1,500-acre tidewater plantation was originally purchased in 1793 by Major Pierce Butler, a signer of the United States Constitution whose grandsons—Pierce Mease Butler and John Mease Butler—inherited the property and the people enslaved there. — Melissa L. Cooper, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 At the Norfolk Naval Station, headquarters of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, the Department of Defense and U.S. Navy acknowledge the risks from chronic and increasing sea level risk and have made plans to manage and adapt to tidewater risks over the next ten years. — Kate Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2018 The interpretation, unveiled at a recent festival in the Chesapeake tidewater hamlet of Easton, is dividing the town and fueling debate over how America redefines and reimagines its ever-present past. — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for tidewater
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tidewater
  1. bottomland
  2. basin
  3. floodplain
  4. plain
  5. flat
  6. valley
  7. fen
Noun
  • Often, deer that bed in flatter creek or river bottomlands bed close to the water.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024
  • There is quite a large area of bottomland forest and marshlands year round.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of bottomland
Noun
  • SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying the Draper Lunar Lander headed for the moon’s Schrödinger basin on the lunar far side.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2025
  • In reality, the water was directed to a dry lake basin elsewhere in the Central Valley – more than 100 miles north of Los Angeles.
    — CNN.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of basin
Noun
  • Ford, with the poultry federation, was noncommittal when he was asked whether his group would be in favor of a buyout of farmers who are growing birds in floodplains.
    — Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2025
  • What’s more, many homeowners are seeing the prices for their flood insurance rise as the NFIP adjusts its rates for existing floodplains using new climate models.
    — Molly Taft, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of floodplain
Noun
  • An ambitious land reclamation project started in the the late 19th century was completed in 1943, the result of which is a large plain of very fertile farm land.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Windy conditions are expected to contribute to fire danger across the urban corridor and plains through the weekend, forecasters said.
    — Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of plain
Noun
  • Think mini dresses, pleated skirts, ballet flats, and fleece jackets in grays, whites, blacks, reds, and pinks.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Silvia Venturini Fendi went so far as to devise ballerina-style flats for Fendi’s menswear collection.
    — Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of flat
Noun
  • Starting in July, the islands transform into a sea of hydrangeas, with vibrant white, blue and purple blooms lining roads and valleys.
    — Emese Maczko, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • These early cosmic hills and valleys extend millions of light years across, and in the billions of years after the ACT snapshot, gravity pulled their denser regions inwards to birth stars that then formed the first galaxies.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of valley
Noun
  • Saving a satyr The property features a peat-bearing wetland called a fen, and the Mitchell’s satyr is only found in these rare habitats that take thousands of years to develop.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Earth’s earliest wildfires may have been fitful and erratic, flickering among the amphibious flora of fens and bogs.
    — Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024
Definition of fen

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