Usually means: Area draining into a waterway.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. watershed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. watershed: Merriam-Webster
  3. watershed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. watershed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. watershed: Collins English Dictionary
  6. watershed: Vocabulary.com
  7. Watershed, watershed: Wordnik
  8. watershed, the watershed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. watershed: Wiktionary
  10. watershed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. watershed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. watershed: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. watershed: Dictionary.com
  14. watershed: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. watershed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Watershed (American band), Watershed (Bristol), Watershed (Grant McLennan album), Watershed (Opeth album), Watershed (South African band), Watershed (algorithm), Watershed (broadcasting), Watershed (image processing), Watershed (k.d. lang album), Watershed (television), Watershed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Watershed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. watershed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. watershed: Rhymezone
  20. Watershed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. watershed: FreeDictionary.org
  22. watershed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Watershed: The Word Detective
  24. watershed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Watershed: World Wide Words
  26. watershed: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Watershed (disambiguation), watershed: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Watershed (disambiguation), watershed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Watershed (disambiguation), watershed: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. watershed: Evolution Glossary

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. watershed: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)
  9. Watershed: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

(Note: See watersheds as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (hydrology, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
noun:  (hydrology, US, Canada) A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
noun:  (figurative) A critical point marking a change in course or development.
noun:  (Canada, British, television, radio) The time during the day which material of a more adult nature (e.g., violence, swear words, or sex) may be broadcast on television or radio, either one permitted by law or one contrived from convention (e.g. when children are not watching).
adjective:  Serving to mark a significant development, change in direction, etc.

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