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waterfall

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Nature, Geology, Geography
wa·ter·fall /ˈwɔːtəfɔːl $ ˈwɒːtərfɒːl, ˈwɑː-/ ●○○ noun [countable]  DNa place where water from a river or stream falls down over a cliff or rock 瀑布4  See picture on 见图 Page A4 Country 乡间4  See picture of 见图 RIVER
Examples from the Corpus
waterfallBelow the well, a waterfall tumbled across an artificial rockery.Glen Muick is very lovely with roaming red deer, beautiful waterfalls, and a peaceful loch.It has also turned even the most demure waterfalls into dramatic fountains, and made the waterfalls in Yosemite Valley absolutely breathtaking.What sounds like a distant waterfall rouses me from sleep in the early morning.The mist was heavy and noisy waterfalls splashed down through pipe thickets of green bamboo.She could see waterfalls cascading down some of the mountain-sides and in the distance a lake.
wa·ter·fall nounChineseSyllable
where or a place from river a Corpus water stream


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waterfall
waterfall /ˈwɔːtəfɔːl $ ˈwɒːtərfɒːl, ˈwɑː-/ noun [countable]

a place where water from a river or stream falls down over a cliff or rock


water·fallBrE /ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwɔːtərfɔːl/ 🔊, /ˈwɑːtərfɔːl/ 🔊 noun
a place where a stream or river falls from a high place, for example over a cliff or rock 瀑布

bend, course, current, dam, downstream, estuary, river, source, tributary, waterfall