2. Verb. (third-person singular of backwater) ¹
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Definition of Backwaters
1. backwater [n] - See also: backwater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backwaters
Literary usage of Backwaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Evolution of Revolution by Henry Hyndman (1921)
"CHAPTER XIV ECONOMIC backwaters: PERU THE immense antiquity of man on the planet
and the enormous periods traversed in his development from the lowest ..."
2. Wessex by Clive Holland (1906)
"In the meadows and in the pools, where the river has overflowed its banks or
formed backwaters around the sharp curves, the birds of winter give the only ..."
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