HIGH WATER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The tide when the water is highest

Synonyms:

high tide; high water; highwater

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("high water" is a kind of...):

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high water"):

direct tide (the occurrence of high tide on one side of the earth coinciding with high tide on the opposite side)

neap; neap tide (a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon)

springtide (a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons)