headwater

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun headwater has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

headwatern. 
     The source and upper part of a stream; -- commonly used in the plural; as, the headwaters of the Missouri.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

headwater, n. (in sing. or pl.) streams flowing from the sources of a river.

THESAURUS

headwater

font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, head, headspring, headstream, headwaters, mainspring, mine, quarry, riverhead, source, spring, springhead, well, wellhead, wellspring

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