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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun headwater has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
headwater, n.
The source and upper part of a stream; -- commonly used in the plural; as, the headwaters of the Missouri. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
THESAURUS
headwater
font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, head, headspring, headstream, headwaters, mainspring, mine, quarry, riverhead, source, spring, springhead, well, wellhead, wellspring
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