riparian right

1. 1.

   right of access to water

   Synonymswater right

   Broaderright

Questions about riparian right

What does riparian right mean?

riparian right means "right of access to water".

What is another word for riparian right?

Close synonyms include water right. 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 riparian right a common word?

riparian right 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.