deep-water

1. 1.

   of or carried on in waters of great depth

   “a deep-water port”

   Similardeep

Questions about deep-water

What does deep-water mean?

deep-water means "of or carried on in waters of great depth".

How many syllables are in deep-water?

deep-water has 3 syllables: deep--wa-ter. The stress falls on "deep-".

Is deep-water a common word?

deep-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.