watershed

Meaning of watershed

noun
  1. an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
  2. an event or period marking a turning point in a situation.
    these works were a watershed in the history of music

early 19th century: from water + shed in the sense ‘ridge of high ground’ (related to shed2), suggested by German Wasserscheide .

Information about watershed

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of watershed is: watersheds.
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Hyphenation of watershed

wa-ter-shed

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • watershed is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

watershed synonyms

Meaning water parting:

divide

Meaning landmark:

landmark

Translation of watershed

Anagrams of watershed

drawsheet

Words that rhyme with watershed

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