fresh
- adjective
- /frɛʃ/
- Fountains in the city furnished vital access to fresh water not immediately available in Havana's urban location.
- fresh water
- fresh water supply
- access to fresh water
Tom Ricks wants to know this is, is a comet or is comet water salty or fresh?
- Tom Ricks wants to know this is, is a comet or is comet water salty or fresh?
Examples
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We came across a stream of fresh water, the first we'd found in the tunnels.
Fiction book (1991) -
The river constitutes a main source of fresh water for both Israel and Lebanon.
Academic text (1993) -
I cannot even explain fresh drinking water.
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Moderate fresh water supply, a reasonable amount of food storage.
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Despite the heat and lack of fresh water, many animals manage to survive, and some even thrive.
Academic text (1990) -
"Go to the car, get that jar, pump some fresh water, and bring it to us."
Fiction book (1993) -
A cool, fresh breeze had escaped somehow from the Canadian glaciers and swept across Cedar Lake.
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And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water... ...to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
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Irrigation is the single largest use of fresh water in the United States.
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Africa's Lake Tanganyika holds almost a fifth of all accessible fresh water on Earth.
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Not having any left of something or having just finished something like school
Compounds
How Fresh
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fresh originally meant 'not salted' (from Old English fersc), so fresh water is the kind that is not from the sea and has no salt.