body of water

Questions about body of water

What does body of water mean?

body of water means "the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)".

What is another word for body of water?

Close synonyms include water. 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 body of water a common word?

body of water 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.