Thesaurus:watercourse

Thesaurus

watercourse

English

Noun

Sense: any channel, natural or artificial, through which water flows

Synonyms

• watercourse

Hyponyms

River

• river    [⇒ thesaurus]

Tributary

• tributary

Smaller than river

• beck
• bourne
• brook
• brooklet
• burn
• coulee
• creek
• freshet
• headstream
• kill    [⇒ thesaurus]
• rill
• rindle
• rivulet
• runnel
• spruit
• stream
• streamlet

Seasonal or intermittent

• arroyo
• draw
• wadi

Hypernyms

• body of water    [⇒ thesaurus]
• landform    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “350. conduit” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “watercourse” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.