noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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CMU ARPABET:M EH1 L T W AA2 T ER0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 2:M EH1 L T W AO2 T ER0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
Water from melting ice or snow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
melted snow or ice
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: water, H2O
History
Etymology
From melt + water.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Abkhaz:
асырӡ
(asərdz)
— water from melting ice or snow
Chinese Mandarin:
融水
(róngshuǐ)
— water from melting ice or snow
Cornish:
dowr teudh
— water from melting ice or snow
Dutch:
smeltwater
— water from melting ice or snow
Esperanto:
fandakvo
— water from melting ice or snow
Finnish:
sulamisvesi
— water from melting ice or snow
Finnish:
sulavesi
— water from melting ice or snow
French:
eau de fonte
— water from melting ice or snow
Galician:
auga do desxeo
— water from melting ice or snow
German:
Schmelzwasser
— water from melting ice or snow
Irish:
leá-uisce
— water from melting ice or snow
Macedonian:
снеговица
(snegovica)
— water from melting ice or snow
Norwegian Bokmål:
smeltevann
— water from melting ice or snow
Swedish:
smältvatten
— water from melting ice or snow