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meltwater

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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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
  • Tibetan: གངས་ཆུ — water from melting ice or snow
  • Welsh: dŵr toddi — water from melting ice or snow
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