drainage basin

Questions about drainage basin

What is another word for drainage basin?

It depends which drainage basin you mean. In the sense “the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet”, the synonyms are river basin, basin, watershed, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area. Across all 1 sense there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of drainage basin?

WordNet records no antonym for drainage basin. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for drainage basin come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of drainage basin

• Full entry for drainage basinAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for drainage basinWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.