alluvium

1. 1.

   clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down

   Synonymsalluvial sedimentalluvial depositalluvion

   Broadersediment

   Narrowerdeltaplacer

Other forms of alluvium

plural

alluvia

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alluvium

What does alluvium mean?

alluvium means "clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down".

How many syllables are in alluvium?

alluvium has 4 syllables: al-lu-vi-um. The stress falls on "lu". In IPA it is /ˌæˈluviəm/.

What is another word for alluvium?

Close synonyms include alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alluvium a common word?

alluvium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.