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We found 37 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word backwater: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "backwater" is defined. General (28 matching dictionaries) backwater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] backwater: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] backwater: Vocabulary.com [home, info] backwater: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] backwater: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Backwater, backwater: Wordnik [home, info] backwater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Backwater: Wiktionary [home, info] backwater: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info] backwater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] backwater: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] backwater: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] Backwater, backwater: Dictionary.com [home, info] backwater: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] backwater: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] Backwater (Brian Eno), Backwater (novel), Backwater (single), Backwater (song), Backwater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Backwater: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] backwater: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] backwater: Rhymezone [home, info] Backwater: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] Backwater: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info] backwater: Free Dictionary [home, info] backwater: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] backwater: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] backwater: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] backwater: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Art (1 matching dictionary) Backwater: English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) backwater: Encyclopedia [home, info] Science (1 matching dictionary) Backwater: Geography Dictionary [home, info] Slang (1 matching dictionary) backwater: Urban Dictionary [home, info] Tech (5 matching dictionaries) Backwater: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info] backwater: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info] BACKWATER: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info] backwater: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info] Backwater: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (backwater) ▸ noun:  any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress ▸ noun:  a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam ("The bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos")