watercourse

1. 1.

   natural or artificial channel through which water flows

   Broaderchannel
2. 2.

   a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

   Synonymsstream

   Broaderbody of water

   Narrowerbranchbrookheadstreamriverrivulettidal river

   Partsfordmeandermidstream
3. 3.

   a conduit through which water flows

   Synonymswaterway

   Broaderway

   Narrowercanalflumeheadracetailrace

Other forms of watercourse

plural

watercourses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about watercourse

What does watercourse mean?

watercourse means "natural or artificial channel through which water flows". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watercourse?

watercourse has 3 syllables: wa-ter-course. The stress falls on "wa".

What is another word for watercourse?

Close synonyms include stream, waterway. 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 watercourse a common word?

watercourse 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.