The headwaters of the River Thames are found in Gloucestershire, and its mouth is on the North Sea.
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Headwaters
//ˈhɛdˌwɑtɝz//
Synonyms for "headwaters" (5 found)
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Translations
27 translations across 13 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- capçalera noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
French
1 entries- source noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
Galician
1 entries- cabeceira noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
German
2 entries- Quellflüsse noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
- Quellgebiet noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
Hawaiian
1 entries- māno noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
Italian
1 entries- sorgente noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
Japanese
1 entries- 水上 noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
Lower Tanana
1 entries- xwtl'ot noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
Malay
1 entries- hulu noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
Māori
2 entries- hiku noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
- taiwhakaroto noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
Portuguese
4 entries- cabeceira noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
- exsurgência noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
- fonte noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
- mina de água noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
Spanish
4 entries- afloramiento noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
- cabecera noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
- fontanar noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
- hontanar noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
Tagalog
1 entries- inantubig noun (the set of streams that feed into the beginning of a river)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
... but when his brows began to wrinkle with time, and he stood alone, the last of his family, and his particular tribe, the few Delawares, who yet continued about the head-waters of their river, gave him the mournful appellation of Mohegan.
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Driver Thornhill beckoned me across the cab and pointed out some two miles ahead as we looked across the headwaters of the Eden Valley, the summit cabin at Ais Gill itself, with the summit point and altitude conspicuously indicated.
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