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Estuary

//ˈɛst͡ʃuˌɛɹi// name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Estuary English colloquial

    "Many of them would move to the new private housing estates springing up further east along the Thames Corridor, where they would learn to 'speak Estuary'."

Noun
  1. 1
    A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.

    "The railway then follows the widening estuary of the river, which at high tide has the appearance of a lake, but at low water presents a rather cheerless expanse of dark mud."

  2. 2
    the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix wordnet
  3. 3
    An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.

Etymology

From Latin aestuarium (“creek”, “estuary of a river”).

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