freshwater
/ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔːtə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.52 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Neoclassical, in reference to the macroeconomics and economic departments near the Great Lakes.
American usage
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Example Sentences
- "The trout is a freshwater fish."
- "Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume."
- "“Mate,” said the captain in a low voice, “you talk like a fresh-water sailor. I can only attribute this shyness to some strange delusion, for surely,”—his voice assumed a slightly sneering tone as he said this—“surely I am not to suppose that you have become soft-hearted! […]"
- "2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86. Meanwhile, the freshwater side of the dispute rapidly reverted to arguments from the nineteenth century, which had been debunked by Keynes and Irving Fisher."
- "Fossils with low Sr/Ca ratios indicating origin in a freshwater of a type which has a low Sr/Ca ratio: […]"
- "Smith (1958) found that N. limnicola in Lake Merced, virtually a freshwater, had no paragnaths or at the most one on section I against the "normal" 1–2."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *preyskosder. Proto-Germanic *friskaz Proto-West Germanic *frisk Old English fersċ Middle English fressh English fresh Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Germanic *watōr Proto-West Germanic *watar Old English wæter Middle English water English water English freshwater From Middle English freche watur, fresshe water; equivalent to fresh + water.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: freche watur
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔːtə(ɹ)/
Usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable