Glacial meltwater is not purer than other types of water.
Source: tatoeba (2677002)
Meltwater
Synonyms for "meltwater"
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Translations
15 translations across 14 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- асырӡ noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Cornish
1 entries- dowr teudh noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Dutch
1 entries- smeltwater noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Esperanto
1 entries- fandakvo noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Finnish
2 entries- sulamisvesi noun (water from melting ice or snow)
- sulavesi noun (water from melting ice or snow)
French
1 entries- eau de fonte noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Galician
1 entries- auga do desxeo noun (water from melting ice or snow)
German
1 entries- Schmelzwasser noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Irish
1 entries- leá-uisce noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Macedonian
1 entries- снеговица noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- smeltevann noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Swedish
1 entries- smältvatten noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Tibetan
1 entries- གངས་ཆུ noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Welsh
1 entries- dŵr toddi noun (water from melting ice or snow)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Greenland's meltwater rivers flow down into giant holes in the ice, called moulins, which drain through tunnels in the ice sheet and out into the ocean.
Source: tatoeba (5402232)
About two-thirds of global sea level rise is due to meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets.
Source: tatoeba (9257420)
It was not until the end of April that winter began to release the land from its icy grip. The days became warmer; snow and ice turned into streams of meltwater.
Source: tatoeba (10516020)
Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.