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General (28 matching dictionaries)

1. backwater: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. backwater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. backwater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. backwater: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. backwater: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. backwater: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Backwater, backwater: Wordnik [home, info]
8. backwater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. backwater: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. backwater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. backwater: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. backwater: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. Backwater, backwater: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. backwater: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
15. backwater: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
16. Backwater (band), Backwater (disambiguation), Backwater (river), Backwater (song), Backwater, The Backwater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
17. Backwater: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
18. backwater: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
19. backwater: Rhymezone [home, info]
20. Backwater: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
21. Backwater: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
22. backwater: Free Dictionary [home, info]
23. backwater: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
24. backwater: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
25. backwater: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
26. backwater: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art (1 matching dictionary)

27. Backwater: English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

28. backwater: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Science (1 matching dictionary)

29. Backwater: Geography Dictionary [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

30. backwater: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)

31. Backwater: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
32. backwater: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
33. BACKWATER: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
34. backwater: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
35. Backwater: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (backwater) ▸ noun:  any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress ▸ noun:  a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam ("The bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos") ▸ Also see backwaters ▸ Words similar to backwater ▸ Usage examples for backwater ▸ Idioms related to backwater (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing backwater ▸ Words that often appear near backwater ▸ Rhymes of backwater ▸ Invented words related to backwater