WATERMARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does watermark mean? 

• WATERMARK (noun)
  The noun WATERMARK has 2 senses:

1. a line marking the level reached by a body of water

2. a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light

  Familiarity information: WATERMARK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERMARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line marking the level reached by a body of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

water line; watermark

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

line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)

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

high-water mark (a line marking the highest level reached)

low-water mark (a line marking the lowest level reached)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

mark; marker; marking (a distinguishing symbol)

 Context examples 

The note is written upon ordinary cream-laid paper without watermark.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The deposits serve as a watermark created by climate fluctuations as the Martian environment transitioned from a wetter one to the freezing desert it is today.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)