waterfall

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • IPA: /ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/
  • SAMPA: /"wO:t@fO:l/
• (US)
  • enPR: wäʹtər-fôl
  • IPA: /ˈwɑtɚfɔl/
  • SAMPA: /"wAt@`fOl/
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Noun

Singular waterfall

Plural waterfalls

A waterfall

1. (countable) A waterfall is a part of a river where water falls down.

   Don't swim too close to the waterfall!

Related words

• coastal waterfall
• waterfall model

Verb

Plain form waterfall

Third-person singular waterfalls

Past tense waterfalled

Past participle waterfalled

Present participle waterfalling

1. (intransitive) If something waterfalls, it falls like a waterfall.
   • 1994, Nora Roberts, Private Scandals, page 54:

     Rain ran off the bill of his fielder's cap and waterfalled in front of his face.

   • 1999, Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville, Armageddon Summer‎, page 79:

     Zondra, whose dirty-blond hair waterfalled above her head from a colorful tie, gave a snorting, horsey kind of laugh.

   • 2008, John Gardner, No Human Enemy‎, page 156:

     they turned into the drive of The Manor with its red-brick front and the wonderful cloak of Virginia creeper waterfalling down between the windows.

See also

• smokefall