tidewater

See also: Tidewater

English

Alternative forms

• tide water

Etymology

From tide +‎ water.

Noun

tidewater (countable and uncountable, plural tidewaters)

1. Water affected by the flow of the tide, especially tidal streams.
   • 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 60:

     Their mission in life was to tote bituminous coal out of the mountain fastness of West Virginia and move it west to the gateways of Deepwater, Columbus and Toledo and east to tidewater at Hampton Roads.

2. The seaboard.
   • 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 100:

     She was born Mary Blair Rice, the daughter of a prominent tidewater Virginia family whose roots stretched back to the colonial era.

3. (attributive, uncommon, architecture) A structure or house with large wraparound porches and hip roofs designed for wet and hot climates.

See also

• Tidewater architecture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “tidewater”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.