Waters
noun
Ethel, 1896–1977, U.S. singer and actress.
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Waters
American
[waw-terz, wot-erz]
/ ˈwɔ tərz, ˈwɒt ərz /
noun
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Ethel, 1896–1977, U.S. singer and actress.
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Muddy McKinley Morganfield, 1915–83, U.S. blues singer and musician.
waters
1
British
plural noun
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any body of sea, or seas regarded as sharing some common quality
Irish territorial waters
uncharted tropical waters
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physiol (sometimes singular) the amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus in the womb
Waters
2
British
/ ˈwɔːtəz /
noun
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Jamie Waters is a columnist for the features team at The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The discovery was made by students taking a field course taught by Waters and Charles Cobb, curator of historical archaeology at the museum.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The documentary features admiring poets as well as Stephen Colbert, a huge Oliver fan, and the irreverent and colorful John Waters, a longtime friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
To test the trend, Jamie Waters spent one week trading his daily three-iced-latte habit for cans of “rocket fuel”—drinking 16.5 in total.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
While the mass of men went on leading thoroughly unexamined lives of monstrous consumption, Augustus Waters examined the collection of the Rijksmuseum from afar.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
El Niño, a climate pattern characterized by warmer ocean waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, is already causing sea levels to rise off the coast of Latin America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Thousands of people have died crossing from Africa to Europe and SOS Mediterranee is leading part of a network of ships and planes that monitor these waters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
The protein was tuned to detect blue light, an adaptation that could help Greenland sharks see in the faint light available deep beneath Arctic waters.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
It's a beautiful day on a sea loch near Glencoe with light winds and calm waters.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
So excited to be crossing these waters again.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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