Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
➡️ With the current 🌊 Further along river
downstream

downstream

9 3.0
Located further along a river or stream in the direction it flows
  • adjective
  • /ˈdaʊnˌstriːm/
translation icon : aguas abajo
  • The villagers downstream rely on the river for their daily water supply.
  • downstream water
  • downstream users
  • downstream communities

Where the stitches downstream of the boundary layer of the of the free stream, it causes the tumble.

Examples

  • Dams capture all but the finest sediments moving down a river, with many severe downstream consequences.

    Academic text (1997)

  • It turns around and instead of going upstream when you drop the oars, the boat naturally just floats downstream with the current of how things are going.

  • Anything downstream of it will be flooded out.

    The Invisible (2007)

  • Actually, these are the companies that have bid for the contract to build the holding tanks at the downstream end of the wadi.

    Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)

  • So heavily laden that it's keel scrapes a few sandbars, the ship floats downstream to the sea.

  • As we moved downstream, we noticed the water was clearer and cleaner.

  • The scientists studied the chemical changes that occur downstream from the dam.

Synonyms

downriver
vsdownstream
18 2.8

In the direction a river flows away from its source

is about being located further along the course from a given point

Antonyms

upstream
3 3.5

Located towards the source of a river, against the flow

How Downstream

mouth
169 3.1
downstream
9 3.0
midstream
7 4.1
upstream
3 3.5
headwaters
  • Specialized
1 5.5

Surface Forms

downstream positive

Morphology

downstream = stream (transparent) = down + stream

The meaning is directly composed from 'down' + 'stream' (direction along the course of a stream), which a B1 learner can infer from the parts. [Postprocessing: moved 'down' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Downstream is a simple combination of down (meaning 'toward a lower place') and stream (meaning 'flowing water'). So, downstream describes a place 'further along the river' in the direction the water moves.