water system

Questions about water system

What does water system mean?

water system means "a river and all of its tributaries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for water system?

Close synonyms include water supply, 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 water system a common word?

water system is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.