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# waterway

«waterway» in Mova's school dictionary: **a river, canal or other stretch of water that boats can…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a waterway, waterways)

### meaning for a pupil

A waterway is a river, canal or other stretch of water that boats can travel along. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterway/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in geography and history: canals in Britain, the Mississippi, the St Lawrence Seaway, Venice; trade and transport before railways.

### examples

- The canal was an important waterway for carrying coal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterway/#x1)
- Boats carry goods along the waterways of Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterway/#x2)
- The Mississippi is a busy American waterway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterway/#x3)
- Rubbish in waterways harms fish and birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterway/#x4)
- Venice has many narrow waterways instead of streets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterway/#x5)
- The town grew up beside a great waterway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterway/#x6)

### note

Compound of «water» + «way». Countable. Not every river is a waterway in this sense: it must be usable by boats.

### In the corpora

- [A canal is a waterway dug by people, a shortcut where nature left none.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «waterway» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterway/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.