Usually means: Coastal area where river meets sea.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word estuary:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. estuary: Merriam-Webster
  2. estuary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. estuary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. estuary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. estuary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Estuary, estuary: Wordnik
  7. estuary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Estuary, estuary: Wiktionary
  9. estuary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. estuary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. estuary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. estuary: Dictionary.com
  13. estuary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. estuary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Estuary (disambiguation), Estuary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Estuary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. estuary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. estuary: Rhymezone
  19. Estuary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. estuary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. estuary: FreeDictionary.org
  22. estuary: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. estuary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Estuary: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. estuary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Estuary, estuary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. estuary: A Word A Day

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. estuary: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. estuary: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Estuary: BEACH-NET! (fishing)

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. estuary: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See estuaries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.
noun:  An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.
noun:  (colloquial) Estuary English

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