Usually means: Area draining water to river.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word drainage basin:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. drainage basin: Merriam-Webster
  2. drainage basin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. drainage basin: Collins English Dictionary
  4. drainage basin: Vocabulary.com
  5. drainage-basin: Wordnik
  6. drainage basin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. drainage basin: Wiktionary
  8. drainage basin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. drainage basin: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. drainage basin: Dictionary.com
  11. Drainage basin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. drainage basin: Rhymezone
  13. drainage basin: FreeDictionary.org
  14. drainage basin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. drainage basin: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drainage basin: Energy Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drainage basin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drainage basin: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  3. drainage basin: Dictionary of Geology

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Drainage basin: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  6. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See drainage_basins as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (drainage basin)

noun:  (hydrology) A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed.

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