WATERFALL meaning: Water cascades down steep incline

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word waterfall:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

waterfall: Merriam-Webster.com
waterfall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
waterfall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
waterfall: Collins English Dictionary
waterfall: Vocabulary.com
Waterfall, waterfall: Wordnik
waterfall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
waterfall: Wiktionary
waterfall: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
waterfall: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
waterfall: Infoplease Dictionary
waterfall: Dictionary.com
waterfall: Online Etymology Dictionary
The Waterfall (album), The Waterfall (film), Waterfall (M. C. Escher), Waterfall (Stargate song), Waterfall (The Stone Roses song), Waterfall (album), Waterfall (disambiguation), Waterfall (song), Waterfall: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Waterfall: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
waterfall: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
waterfall: Rhymezone
Waterfall: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
waterfall: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
waterfall: Free Dictionary
waterfall: Mnemonic Dictionary
waterfall: Dictionary/thesaurus
waterfall: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
waterfall: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

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waterfall: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

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waterfall: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

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Waterfall: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc.
▸ noun:  (technical, computing, slang) Waterfall model
▸ noun:  (slang, US) The action of drinking from a vessel without touching it with the lips, considered more sanitary for a shared vessel.
▸ noun:  (colloquial, dated) A necktie.
▸ noun:  (colloquial, dated) A chignon.
▸ noun:  (colloquial, dated) A beard.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To fall like a waterfall.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To drink (something) from a container by pouring it from a height so as not to touch one's lips to the rim.
▸ verb:  (roller derby) Synonym of recycle
▸ noun:  (art, historical) A stylistic art trend for furniture which was popular in the 1930s and 1940s, featuring wooden surfaces and curved edges prominently in its design.
▸ noun:  A barangay of Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines
▸ noun:  A barangay of Balingasag, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
▸ noun:  A barangay of Panabo, Davao del Norte, Philippines
▸ noun:  A barangay of Kiblawan, Davao del Sur, Philippines
▸ noun:  A barangay of Sulop, Davao del Sur, Philippines

Similar:

cascade, falls, cataract, cloudfall, byfall, lavafall, icefall, nappe, fogfall, cliff face, more...

Opposite:

source

Types:

cascade, cascata, plunge, rapids, cataract, more...

Phrases:

waterfall model, waterfall effect, waterfall methodology, waterfall plot, plunge waterfall, more...

Adjectives:

small, beautiful, little, great, foot, highest, distant, fine, large, frozen, spectacular

Colors:

blue, turquoise, aqua, teal, cyan, more...

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