All waterway synonyms

noun waterway

• watercourse — a stream of water, as a river or brook.
• channel — A channel is a television station.
• canal — A canal is a long, narrow stretch of water that has been made for boats to travel along or to bring water to a particular area.
• stream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
• river — a person who rives.
• ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
• dike — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
• foxhole — a small pit, usually for one or two soldiers, dug as a shelter in a battle area.
• gorge — to swallow, especially greedily.
• gully — a small valley or ravine originally worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains.
• moat — a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
• pit — the stone of a fruit, as of a cherry, peach, or plum.
• trough — a long, narrow, open receptacle, usually boxlike in shape, used chiefly to hold water or food for animals.
• arroyo — An arroyo is a dry stream bed with steep sides.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
• drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
• drill — a large, baboonlike monkey, Mandrillus leucophaeus, of western Africa, similar to the related mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored: now endangered.
• dugout — a boat made by hollowing out a log.
• earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
• entrenchment — The process of entrenching or something which entrenches.
• excavation — The action of excavating something, esp. an archaeological site.
• fosse — Robert Louis ("Bob") 1927–87, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and theater and film director.
• furrow — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
• gulch — a deep, narrow ravine, especially one marking the course of a stream or torrent.
• gutter — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
• hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
• main — chief in size, extent, or importance; principal; leading: the company's main office; the main features of a plan.
• rut — the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.
• sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
• tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
• roadway — the land over which a road is built; a road together with the land at its edge.
• artery — Arteries are the tubes in your body that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body. Compare vein.
• avenue — Avenue is sometimes used in the names of streets. The written abbreviation Ave. is also used.
• boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
• causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
• expressway — A highway designed for fast traffic, with controlled entrance and exit, a dividing strip between the traffic in opposite directions, and typically two or more lanes in each direction.
• freeway — an express highway with no intersections, usually having traffic routed on and off by means of a cloverleaf.
• highway — a main road, especially one between towns or cities: the highway between Los Angeles and Seattle.
• lane — a male given name.
• street — a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
• parkway — a broad thoroughfare with a dividing strip or side strips planted with grass, trees, etc.
• passage — a slow, cadenced trot executed with great elevation of the feet and characterized by a moment of suspension before the feet strike the ground.
• path — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
• road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
• strait — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
• turnpike — a high-speed highway, especially one maintained by tolls.
• mouth — Anatomy, Zoology. the opening through which an animal or human takes in food. the cavity containing the structures used in mastication. the structures enclosing or being within this cavity, considered as a whole.
• inlet — an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
• arm — Your arms are the two long parts of your body that are attached to your shoulders and that have your hands at the end.