white water

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   frothy water as in rapids or waterfalls

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Questions about white water

What does white water mean?

white water means "frothy water as in rapids or waterfalls".

What is another word for white water?

Close synonyms include whitewater. 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 white water a common word?

white 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.