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English
Etymology
From water + land. Cognate with Old Frisian waterland, weterlond, Middle Low German waterlant, wāterlant, Dutch waterland, German Wasserland.
Noun
waterland (plural waterlands)
- Synonym of wetland
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch waterlant. Equivalent to water + land.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋaː.tərˌlɑnt/
- Hyphenation: wa‧ter‧land
Noun
waterland n (plural waterlanden, diminutive waterlandje n)
- land, esp. a country or region, with a lot of water or with a large number of bodies of water
- wetland, waterland