mid-water

1. 1.

   the water that is well below the surface but also well above the bottom

   “many marine fishes inhabit the mid-waters”

   Broaderbody of water

Questions about mid-water

What does mid-water mean?

mid-water means "the water that is well below the surface but also well above the bottom".

How many syllables are in mid-water?

mid-water has 3 syllables: mi-d-wa-ter. The stress falls on "mi".

Is mid-water a common word?

mid-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.