Thesaurus:body of water

Thesaurus:body of water

THESAURUS

body of water

English

Synonyms

• body of water

• water body

• waterbody

Hyponyms

• aqueduct

• aquifer

• bayou

• beck

• bay

• beel (see w:Beel)

• bight

• billabong

• branch

• brook

• burn

• canal

• cenote

• channel

• cove

• caldera

• creek

• embayment

• estuary

• falls

• firth

• fjard (see w:fjard)

• fjord

• fleet    [WS]

• fork

• freshet

• frith

• gill

• gulf

• harbor

• impoundment

• inlet    [WS]

• kettle

• kill    [WS]

• lade

• lagoon

• lake    [WS]

• lick

• lin

• loch

• lock

• lochan

• lode

• lough

• mere

• mill race

• navigation

• ocean

• oxbow lake

• passage

• polynya

• pond

• pool

• pothole

• puddle

• reach

• reservoir

• ria

• rill

• river

• rivulet

• roadstead

• run    [WS]

• runnel

• sag pond (see w:Sag pond)

• sea

• seaway

• seep

• sink

• slough

• sound    [WS]

• spring    [WS]

• strait

• stream

• streamlet

• swallet

• tributary

• tarn

• watercourse    [WS]

• waterway

• arroyo

• bourne

• draw

• gilgai

• haor

• playa

• sike

• turlough

• vernal pool (see w:Vernal pool)

• wadi

• wash

• winterbourne

Hypernyms

• landform    [WS]

See also

• Body of water on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “343. gulf, lake” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “body of water” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.