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flowage

flowage

9.5
Land flooded on purpose to make a reservoir or wetland
  • noun
  • /ˈfloʊɪdʒ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : inundación
  • This meeting is about the town water patrol on High Falls Flowage.
  • Chippewa Flowage

Examples

  • This night on the Chippewa Flowage evoked another spearing night for Yolanda St. Germaine, who was with us.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Driving by where X crosses the High Falls Flowage.

    Blog text (25)

  • A mile from my house lay a great beaver flowage, its eastern bank a strip of ground just under a cliff.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • An estimated 11,200 lakes lie wholly or partly within the ceded territory of Wisconsin (additional ones lie in Minnesota and Michigan, plus many miles of flowages and rivers).

    Academic text (1993)

  • The flowage created by the new dam resulted in a wetland area that is now popular for birdwatching.

  • Farmers rely on the flowage from the nearby reservoir to irrigate their crops during the dry season.

  • The council decided to turn the abandoned lot into a flowage to help manage the stormwater runoff in the neighborhood.

Synonyms

floodway
vsflowage
1 4.1

A channel or area that directs extra floodwater away from homes and buildings

is land purposely submerged to store water for reservoirs or water management

Antonyms

dry land
23 1.0

The solid ground on Earth that is not under the sea

How Flooded

flowage
  • Specialized
9.5
inundation
1 7.7
wetland
68 3.5

Surface Forms

flowage singular
flowages plural

Morphology

flowage = flow (semi-transparent) = flow + age

Derived from 'flow' + '-age' meaning a result/place of flowing (a purposely flooded area); the meaning is predictable from components but somewhat regional/technical.

Etymology

Flowage comes from flow ('to move like water') and the ending -age that turns a verb into a result or place. So, a flowage can be an area of land that is covered by water when people let water flow in for a reservoir or wetland.