Sweetwater

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A name for towns, rivers, counties, or other places in the United States

proper noun

: Sweetwater

Many local festivals are held every summer in Sweetwater, attracting visitors from nearby towns.
Sweetwater Creek
Sweetwater State Park
Sweetwater, Texas

There was an actual maze that they the attendees could go through and they even had as a tease and the outskirts of Sweetwater, a samurai.

Examples

We left there before Christmas of 1934 and moved to Big Spring, Texas, just 60 miles west of Sweetwater.

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We'll check every road and every farm between San Angelo and Sweetwater.

A Perfect World (1993)
Grew up near Sweetwater myself.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)
Take the guns to Sweetwater and meet the contact man?

The Comancheros (1961)
You and I are going to Sweetwater.

Chicken House (2025)
What's he doing in Sweetwater?

The Ice Pirates (1984)
Didn't you see about the forest fire all around Sweetwater?

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
I don't really know, but the last time I heard, he was in a little place called Sweetwater.

The Beautiful Country (2004)
Brian Chadwick is with the county sheriff's office in Sweetwater.

Talk Radio (1988)
Jewel and Jack Miser stand in front of their home in Sweetwater, TN.

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Surface Forms

Sweetwater main

Morphology

Sweetwater = sweet + water (transparent) = sweet + water

Formed by straightforward compounding of the common words 'sweet' + 'water', so the meaning (a place named for pleasant or fresh water) is directly recoverable from the components.

Etymology

The name Sweetwater is made from the English words sweet and water, meaning water that tastes 'fresh' or 'pleasant'. Early settlers used the name for rivers and towns with a good source of fresh water, so today Sweetwater is the name of many towns, counties, and rivers.