well water

1. 1.

   underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks

   Synonymsground waterspring water

   Broaderwater

Questions about well water

What does well water mean?

well water means "underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks".

What is another word for well water?

Close synonyms include ground water, spring 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 well water a common word?

well water 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.