freshwater

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English freche watur, fresshe water; equivalent to fresh +‎ water. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔːtə(ɹ)/ (General American) (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɑtər/ (without the cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔtər/ Hyphenation: fresh‧wa‧ter === Adjective === freshwater (not comparable) Living in fresh water. Consisting of fresh water. (nautical) Unskilled as a seaman. (US, economics) Neoclassical, in reference to the macroeconomics and economic departments near the Great Lakes. 2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86. Synonym: sweetwater ==== Hypernyms ==== aquatic ==== Hyponyms ==== lentic lotic wetland ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === freshwater (countable and uncountable, plural freshwaters) (countable) A body of fresh water. Alternative form of fresh water. ==== Translations ====