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WHITE WATER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does white water mean?
• WHITE WATER (noun)
The noun WHITE WATER has 1 sense:
1. frothy water as in rapids or waterfalls
Familiarity information: WHITE WATER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Frothy water as in rapids or waterfalls
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
white water; whitewater
Hypernyms ("white water" is a kind of...):
foam; froth (a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid)
Context examples
But Ivan, who had once been shown the way by Old Kinoos, and had found that way to lead through the white water and a deadly fight, believed no more in anything.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He it was who fought his way through the white water, with two men left of all his men, and went away along the rim of the Great Fog Sea into the north. Kinoos was wise.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
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