waterway

[waw-ter-wey, wot-er-]

noun

1. a river, canal, or other body of water serving as a route or way of travel or transport.

2. Shipbuilding.,  (in a steel or iron vessel) a depressed gutter at the edge of the deck inside the bulwarks, used especially when the decking is wooden.

3. a channel for vessels, as a fairway in a harbor.

waterway

/ ˈwɔːtəˌweɪ /

noun

1. a river, canal, or other navigable channel used as a means of travel or transport

Word History and Origins

Origin of waterway¹

before 950; Middle English; Old English wæterweg. See water, way ¹

Example Sentences

Catalonia's civil protection service sent a telephone alert urging residents in the Montsia region to avoid travelling and approaching waterways.

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Confrontations between Philippine and Chinese vessels occur frequently in the contested waterway, which Beijing claims nearly in its entirety despite an international ruling that its assertion has no legal basis.

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Chicago, technically speaking, abuts the border with Canada because Lake Michigan is part of an international waterway.

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To this point, it has managed to survive by inhabiting artificial waterways like irrigation, canals and rice fields, where it became a familiar sight for local farmers, according to the U.S.

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The tone was set at his inauguration, when he asserted that China controlled the Panama Canal and said the U.S. would take control of the waterway.

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