estuary

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see also: Estuary

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Noun

estuary (plural estuaries)

1. Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.
2. An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.

Translations

• French: estuaire
• German: Ästuar, Flussmündung
• Italian: estuario
• Portuguese: estuário
• Russian: эстуа́рий
• Spanish: estuario

Translations

• Spanish: ría

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Estuary

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Proper noun

1. (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'.

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