ground water

1. 1.

   underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks

   Synonymsspring waterwell water

   Broaderwater

Questions about ground water

What does ground water mean?

ground water means "underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks".

What is another word for ground water?

Close synonyms include spring water, well 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 ground water a common word?

ground 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.