watersheds

Meaning of watersheds

plural 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 watersheds

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

wa-ter-sheds

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • watersheds is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with watersheds

drowsiheds, seemliheds, Sheds, airsheds, bloodsheds, coalsheds, cowsheds, milksheds, sheds, snowsheds, toolsheds, unsheds, unwasheds, woodsheds, woolsheds, betrotheds, bountyheds, seemlyheds, unthriftyheds

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