waterway

«waterway» in Mova's school dictionary: a river, canal or other stretch of water that boats can… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a waterway, waterways)

meaning for a pupil

A waterway is a river, canal or other stretch of water that boats can travel along. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in geography and history: canals in Britain, the Mississippi, the St Lawrence Seaway, Venice; trade and transport before railways.

examples

• The canal was an important waterway for carrying coal. tree →
• Boats carry goods along the waterways of Europe. tree →
• The Mississippi is a busy American waterway. tree →
• Rubbish in waterways harms fish and birds. tree →
• Venice has many narrow waterways instead of streets. tree →
• The town grew up beside a great waterway. tree →

note

Compound of «water» + «way». Countable. Not every river is a waterway in this sense: it must be usable by boats.

In the corpora

• A canal is a waterway dug by people, a shortcut where nature left none.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «waterway» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.