water parting

1. 1.

   a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

   Synonymswatersheddivide

   Broaderline

   Narrowercontinental divideGreat Divide

Questions about water parting

What does water parting mean?

water parting means "a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems".

What is another word for water parting?

Close synonyms include watershed, divide. 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 water parting a common word?

water parting 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.