HEADWATER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The source of a river

Example:

the headwaters of the Nile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("headwater" is a kind of...):

beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)

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