Headwaters

Pronunciation

• Canada IPA: /ˈhÉ›dËŒwÉ‘tɝz/

Alternative forms

• head-waters
• head waters

Origin

head + waters

Full definition of headwaters

Noun

1. The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
• 1823: James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers... but when his brows began to wrinkle with time, and he stood alone, the last of his family, and his particular tribe, the few Delawares, who yet continued about the head-waters of their river, gave him the mournful appellation of Mohegan.