river basin

Questions about river basin

What does river basin mean?

river basin means "the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet".

What is another word for river basin?

Close synonyms include basin, watershed, drainage basin, catchment area, catchment basin. 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 river basin a common word?

river basin 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.