body of water

Noun
  1. The part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) (synset 109248053)
    "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge"
    referred to in:
    • lake - a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
    • ocean - a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
    • river - a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
    is a type of: thing - a separate and self-contained entity
    subtypes:
    • backwater - a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam
    • bay, embayment - an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
    • channel - a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
    • drink - any large deep body of water
    • estuary - the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix
    • flowage - a body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area
    • crossing, ford - a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
    • gulf - an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
    • high sea, international waters - the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation
    • inlet, recess - an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
    • lake - a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
    • briny, main - any very large body of (salt) water
    • mid-water - the water that is well below the surface but also well above the bottom
    • ocean - a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
    • offing - the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area
    • polynya - a stretch of open water surrounded by ice (especially in Arctic seas)
    • pool, puddle - a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
    • sea - a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
    • seven seas - an informal expression for all of the oceans of the world
    • shallow, shoal - a stretch of shallow water
    • sound - a large ocean inlet or deep bay
    • stream, watercourse - a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
    • territorial waters - the waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction
    • falls, waterfall - a steep descent of the water of a river
    • waterway - a navigable body of water
    is a part of:
    substance holonym: h2o, water - binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
    same as: water

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