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Webster 1913 Edition


Estuary

Es′tu-a-ry

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Estuaries
(#)
.
[L.
aestuarium
, from
aestuare
to surge. See
Estuate
.]
[Written also
æstuary
.]
1.
A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
[Obs.]
Boyle.
2.
A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
it to the sea was often by long and wide
estuaries
.
Dana.

Es′tu-a-ry

,
Adj.
Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary;
as,
estuary
strata
.
Lyell.

Webster 1828 Edition


Estuary

ES'TUARY

,
Noun.
[L. oestuarium, from oestuo, to boil or foam, oestus, heat, fury, storm.]
1.
An arm of the sea; a frith; a narrow passage, or the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current, or flows and ebbs.
2.
A vapor-bath.

Definition 2024


Estuary

Estuary

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English

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Estuary

  1. (colloquial) Estuary English
    • 2015, Jonathan Schneer, The Thames: England's River
      Many of them would move to the new private housing estates springing up further east along the Thames Corridor, where they would learn to 'speak Estuary'.

estuary

estuary

See also: Estuary

English

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Noun

estuary (plural estuaries)

  1. Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge.
  2. An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.

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