HIGHWATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does highwater mean? 

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

1. the tide when the water is highest

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHWATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The tide when the water is highest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

high tide; high water; highwater

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

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "highwater"):

direct tide (the occurrence of high tide on one side of the earth coinciding with high tide on the opposite side)

neap; neap tide (a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon)

springtide (a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons)