Associations to the word «Tidewater»

Wiktionary

TIDEWATER, noun. Water affected by the flow of the tide, especially tidal streams
TIDEWATER, noun. The seaboard

Dictionary definition

TIDEWATER, noun. Low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams.
TIDEWATER, noun. The coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats