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Webster 1913 Edition
Estuary
Es′tu-a-ry
,Noun.
pl.
Estuaries
(#)
. [Written also
æstuary
.] 1.
A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
[Obs.]
Boyle.
2.
A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
it to the sea was often by long and wide
estuaries
. Dana.
Es′tu-a-ry
,Adj.
Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary;
as,
. estuary
strataLyell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Estuary
ES'TUARY
,Noun.
1.
An arm of the sea; a frith; a narrow passage, or the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current, or flows and ebbs.2.
A vapor-bath.Definition 2024
Estuary
Estuary
See also: estuary
English
Proper noun
Estuary
- (colloquial) Estuary English
- 2015, Jonathan Schneer, The Thames: England's River
- Many of them would move to the new private housing estates springing up further east along the Thames Corridor, where they would learn to 'speak Estuary'.
- 2015, Jonathan Schneer, The Thames: England's River
estuary
estuary
See also: Estuary
English
Alternative forms
- æstuary (archaic)
Noun
estuary (plural estuaries)
- Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge.
- An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.
Derived terms
Translations
place where ocean tides and river water merge
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