estuary
see also: Estuary
Noun
Estuary
Proper noun
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see also: Estuary
Noun
estuary (plural estuaries)
- Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.
- An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.
- French: estuaire
- German: Ästuar, Flussmündung
- Italian: estuario
- Portuguese: estuário
- Russian: эстуа́рий
- Spanish: estuario
- Spanish: ría
Estuary
Proper noun
- (colloquial) Estuary English
- 2015, Jonathan Schneer, The Thames: England's River
- 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'.
- 2015, Jonathan Schneer, The Thames: England's River
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