HEADWATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does headwater mean? 

• HEADWATER (noun)
  The noun HEADWATER has 1 sense:

1. the source of a river

  Familiarity information: HEADWATER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEADWATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The source of a river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

the headwaters of the Nile

Hypernyms ("headwater" is a kind of...):

beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)

 Context examples 

He wished, he said, to ask Professor Challenger whether the results to which he had alluded in his remarks had been obtained during a journey to the headwaters of the Amazon made by him two years before.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)