estuary
pronunciation
How to pronounce estuary in British English:
UK [ˈestʃuəri]
How to pronounce estuary in American English:
US [ˈestʃueri]
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- Noun:
- the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix
Word Origin
- estuary (n.)
- 1530s, from Latin aestuarium "a tidal marsh, mudbeds covered by water at high tides; channel inland from the sea," from aestus "boiling (of the sea), tide, heat," from PIE *aidh- "to burn" (see edifice).
Example
- 1. Thousands of drowned bodies were later recovered from the sumida estuary .
- 2. Mr johnson wants a new airport in the thames estuary , to the east of london .
- 3. No one ever tried to evaluate changing the estuary again .
- 4. Finally , a taste of sea water , they arrive within third days of the river estuary .
- 5. In the future , the u.k. has proposed a tidal power barrage across the severn estuary that separates england and wales .