groundwater

See also: ground water

English

Alternative forms

• ground water

Etymology

From ground +‎ water.

Pronunciation

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Noun

groundwater (countable and uncountable, plural groundwaters)

1. Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.
   • 1995, Olwyn Owen, Christopher Lowe, Kebister: The Four-thousand-year-old Story, page 45:

     The pH in water of the hillside soils varied between 3.1 and 6.1 with a mean of 4.2. The pattern of pH variation is complex and does not clearly relate either to cultivation or occupation. The most consistent, though weak, correlation appears to be between higher pH and flushes or bogs, which indicates that the local groundwaters are comparatively basic.

   • 2003, B. B. Huckell, C. Vance Haynes, “The Ventana Complex: New Dates and New Ideas on Its Place in Early Holocene Western Prehistory”, in American Antiquity, volume 68, number 2, page 357:

     Research has shown bone apatite to undergo chemical exchange with carbonates in either vadose water or groundwater.

Derived terms

• groundwater level

Translations

Water existing beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers

• Basque: lurpeko ura
• Bulgarian: подпочвена вода f (podpočvena voda)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 地下水 (dei⁶ haa⁶ seoi²)

  Mandarin: 地下水 (zh) (dìxiàshuǐ)

• Czech: podzemní voda (cs)
• Dutch: grondwater (nl) n
• Finnish: pohjavesi (fi)
• French: eau souterraine f
• Georgian: მიწისქვეშა წყალი (mic̣iskveša c̣q̇ali)
• German: Grundwasser (de) n

  Low German: Grundwater (nds) n (Schlewig-Holstein, Ostfriesland, Hamburg, Nordniedersachsen, Oldenburg-Bremen, Münsterland), Grundwaater (nds) n (Westwestphalia)

• Greek: εδαφικό νερό n (edafikó neró)
• Gujarati: ભૂગર્ભજળ (bhūgarbhajaḷ), ભૂજળ (bhūjaḷ)
• Hindi: भूजल (hi) (bhūjal)
• Indonesian: air tanah (id)
• Irish: screamhuisce
• Italian: acqua freatica f, falda acquifera (it) f
• Japanese: 地下水 (ja) (chikasui)
• Kannada: ಅಂತರ್ಜಲ (kn) (antarjala)
• Korean: 지하수 (ko) (jihasu)
• Malay: air tanah, air bawah tanah, air bumi
• Maltese: ilma tal-pjan m
• Maori: wainuku
• Marathi: भूजल n (bhūjal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grunnvann n, grunnvatn n

  Nynorsk: grunnvatn n

• Polish: woda gruntowa f
• Portuguese: água subterrânea f, água de poço f, água de poços f
• Romanian: apă subterană f, apă freatică f
• Russian: подзе́мные во́ды pl f (podzémnyje vódy), грунто́вая вода́ f (gruntóvaja vodá)
• Sicilian: farda (scn)
• Spanish: agua subterránea
• Sundanese: ᮎᮄ ᮒᮔᮩᮂ (cai taneuh)
• Swedish: grundvatten (sv) n
• Tagalog: tubig-lupa
• Thai: น้ำบาดาล (náam-baa-daan)
• Turkish: yeraltı suyu
• Vietnamese: nước ngầm

Further reading

• groundwater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia