Usually means: Water not salty, naturally occurring.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word freshwater:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. freshwater: Merriam-Webster
  2. freshwater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. freshwater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. freshwater: Collins English Dictionary
  5. freshwater: Vocabulary.com
  6. Freshwater, freshwater: Wordnik
  7. freshwater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Freshwater, freshwater: Wiktionary
  9. freshwater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. freshwater: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. freshwater: Dictionary.com
  12. freshwater: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Freshwater (disambiguation), Freshwater (film), Freshwater (opera), Freshwater (play), Freshwater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. freshwater: Rhymezone
  15. freshwater: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. freshwater: FreeDictionary.org
  17. freshwater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. freshwater: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. freshwater: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freshwater: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freshwater, Freshwater: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See freshwaters as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Living in fresh water.
adjective:  Consisting of fresh water.
adjective:  (nautical) Unskilled as a seaman.
adjective:  (economics) neoclassical, in reference to U.S. macroeconomics and economics departments near the Great Lakes.
noun:  (countable) A body of fresh water
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A large village and civil parish in the west of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ3387).
noun:  A settlement on Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
noun:  A designated place at Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador.
noun:  A neighbourhood of Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States.
noun:  A northern suburb of Sydney in Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia.
noun:  A suburb of Cairns in Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative spelling of fresh water [Water with a very low content of dissolved salt, as opposed to brackish water or salt water.]

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