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Meanings of watercourse in English

Portuguese
córrego
Catalan
corrent
Spanish
curso de agua

A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth.

        córrego

        A conduit through which water flows.

              Synonyms
              Examples for "stream"
              Examples for "stream"
              1
              Refugees and migrants stream across permeable borders, arriving by sea and land.
              The Guardian
              2
              In time that stream goes all the way to the Red Sea.
              The confusion
              3
              Work stream number three is the criteria enabling non-resident Bougainvilleans to vote.
              Radio NZ
              4
              The 35-minute stream depicts and promotes extreme violence and terrorism, he said.
              Radio NZ
              5
              And changing viewing habits means the future revenue stream is at risk.
              The Irish Times
              Usage of watercourse in English
              1
              The sun was low in the sky when they reached the watercourse.
              The Top of the World
              2
              Colonel White then pushed his skirmishers forward into and beyond the watercourse.
              South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) / From the Fou...
              3
              The country appeared but thinly wooded, and without any hill or watercourse.
              Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
              4
              Below the junction of this creek the watercourse is called Landsborough's River.
              Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria / In searc...
              5
              The thunder of the powerful watercourse grew loud, drowning out everything else.
              The irish warrior
              6
              A small watercourse had brought down a large quantity of black sand.
              The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the ...
              7
              He had a presentiment that this watercourse could not be far distant.
              Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
              8
              The empty watercourse provided an overhang, not quite a cave, but shelter.
              Star Hunter
              9
              The watercourse widened out, and Chris heeled the boat around to port.
              The Anubis Gates
              10
              Now, what's to hinder a man escaping by means of that watercourse?
              A Rock in the Baltic
              11
              The little watercourse served as a sort of natural staircase for the visitors.
              Indian Boyhood
              12
              The watercourse and the strip of eternally emerald-green grass separated them.
              The Lion's Share
              13
              Riding even harder, they reached another watercourse just as the light was fading.
              Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
              14
              Icicles, hanging from watercourse or mill-wheel, glitter in the noonday sunlight.
              Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
              15
              There is no watercourse within four hundred miles, on which navigation is practicable.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 / A Magazine ...
              16
              This argued a watercourse between us and the hills around Kilimanjaro.
              African Camp Fires
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              Translations for watercourse
              Portuguese
              córrego
              Catalan
              corrent
              Watercourse through the time
              Watercourse across language varieties
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