watercourse

English

Etymology

From Middle English water course; equivalent to water +‎ course.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːtə(ɹ)ˌkɔː(ɹ)s/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

watercourse (plural watercourses)

1. Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.

   Hypernyms: body of water; see also Thesaurus:body of water

   Hyponyms: waterway; more at Thesaurus:watercourse

Translations

channel through which water flows

• Bulgarian: течение (bg) n (tečenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水道 (zh) (shuǐdào), 河道 (zh) (hédào) (river course), 水路 (zh) (shuǐlù)

• Danish: løb (da) n
• Dutch: waterloop (nl) m, loop (nl) m
• Finnish: uoma (fi)
• French: cours d'eau (fr) m, cours (fr) m
• Galician: canle (gl) f
• Georgian: წყალსადინარი (c̣q̇alsadinari), წყალსადენი არხი (c̣q̇alsadeni arxi)
• German: Wasserlauf (de) m, Flußlauf (de) m, Lauf (de) m
• Hungarian: (riverbed) folyómeder (hu), (the stream itself) folyás (hu), vízfolyás (hu), folyóvíz (hu)
• Italian: corso d'acqua m, corso (it)
• Japanese: 水路 (ja) (すいろ, suiro)
• Korean: 수로 (ko) (suro)
• Luxembourgish: Waasserlaf m
• Macedonian: тек m (tek), во́дотек m (vódotek), те́чење n (téčenje)
• Malayalam: ചാൽ (ml) (cāl)
• Manx: stroo m
• Māori: koawa
• Middle English: cours
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vannløp n, løp (no) n

• Polish: koryto (pl) n, bieg (pl) m
• Portuguese: igarapé (pt) m, curso de água m, curso d'água m, curso (pt) m
• Russian: ру́сло (ru) n (rúslo)
• Spanish: curso (es), corriente de agua f
• Swedish: vattendrag (sv)
• Thai: คลอง (th) (klɔɔng)
• Turkish: mecra (tr)

Further reading

• watercourse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “watercourse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• watercourse, Water Dictionary: Water Information: Bureau of Meteorology, bom.gov.au
• The Definition of a ‘Watercourse’: Towards an Interpretive Understanding by William Russell Harding, 2015