body of water
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- noun
- /ˈbɑdi əv ˈwɔtər/
:
cuerpo de agua
- Levels were higher, overall, in small bodies of water, where there is less natural dilution.
- a large body of water
- a small body of water
- other bodies of water
OK, Saturn could float in water if we had a body of water big enough to test it.
- OK, Saturn could float in water if we had a body of water big enough to test it.
- The character narcissist who saw his reflection in a body of water.
- OK, both of these bodies of water are fed by the exact same river.
- I like to jump off of buildings into bodies of water.
- It's like I had I had fallen into a very deep body of water.
- It is very, very hard to, you know, to attack across a body of water.
- And the, and the hieroglyphs talk about the two that they were brothers on either side of the big body of water.
- It would be like me saying, Oh, the pond in my back garden is the closest body of water to everybody in the vicinity except for the Atlantic Ocean.
- It was the largest building under one roof in the world, and it was high in the Russian tundra near this large body of water.
- It's almost like a person who is very carefully putting their foot into a swimming pool or another body of water.
- There is no two bodies of water anywhere on the planet the same.
Examples
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At the north end of the valley, a body of water glistened in the slanting light.
Fiction book (1990) -
We'll be standing in front of a large body of water.
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And his favorite body of water was the sea.
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It's a big body of water out there.
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Because air pressure systems move, the body of water we wanted to survey would be moving as well.
Academic text (2003) -
This is the largest landlocked body of water on the earth.
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There are rare bodies of water that rely on natural eutrophication.
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In fact, we've had flood warnings for like the past week because all of our bodies of water around here are getting so full.
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Most of Splendor's western hemisphere was taken up with the gigantic body of water.
Fiction book (2002) -
We decided to have a picnic by the beautiful body of water near the campsite.
Synonyms
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1.0
An area covered by water, like a river, lake, or sea
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A large area of salt water partly enclosed by land
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A very large area of salt water covering most of the Earth's surface
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A large area of fresh water surrounded by land
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A small, narrow flow of water on the ground
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8.8
A large body of water like a sea or lake
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7.9
The open sea far from land
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'body' as a distinct mass or entity + 'of' linking + 'water' yields ‘a mass/area of water’. This noun-of-noun pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish 'cuerpo de agua') and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Body of water comes from the simple image of water forming a single body, a separate area like a lake, river, or sea. So the phrase means 'a large or separate area of water' today.