waterborne

1. 1.

   transported by water

   “waterborne freight”

   Similarmobile
2. 2.

   supported by water

   “waterborne craft”

   Similarafloat

Questions about waterborne

What does waterborne mean?

waterborne means "transported by water". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waterborne?

waterborne has 3 syllables: wa-ter-borne. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈwɔtɚˌbɔɹn/.

Is waterborne a common word?

waterborne 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.