wadi
wa·di [ ˈwä-dē]
[ˈwä-dē]
1 : the bed or valley of a stream in regions of southwestern Asia and northern Africa that is usually dry except during the rainy season and that often forms an oasis : gully, wash 2 : a shallow usually sharply defined depression in a desert region
Recent Examples on the Web
//Laughter of couples crossing the lawn, sinking into the darkness of the wadi.
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Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, "Setting the World to Rights," 10 Apr. 2019
//But in the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire began a new settlement at Jerash, mostly on the eastern bank of the wadi, on top of the ancient remains of that half of the city.
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Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Decades of aerial photos reveal how an ancient desert city got its water," 30 May 2018
//The spring that filled the Birketein reservoir, where modern residents swim, would have supplied about a quarter of the ancient city, along with water from upstream in the wadi.
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Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Decades of aerial photos reveal how an ancient desert city got its water," 30 May 2018
//One geologist, Ernie Berg, noticed that a wadi, or ancient riverbed, took a mysterious turn.
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Stanley Reed, New York Times, "An Oil Giant Is Taking Big Steps. Saudi Arabia Can’t Afford for It to Slip.," 16 June 2018
//In northern Jordan, along a wadi once called the Golden River, the ancient city of Jerash sits uneasily alongside its modern namesake.
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Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Decades of aerial photos reveal how an ancient desert city got its water," 30 May 2018
//Hayonim Cave in Western Galilee, Israel, overlooks the right bank of a large wadi a few miles from the Mediterranean shore.
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Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Early Middle-Eastern culture had a thing for gazelle scapula," 1 May 2018
First Known Use of wadi
1828, in the meaning defined at sense 1
History and Etymology for wadi
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More Synonyms and Antonyms ofwadi
a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment
- an aborigine armed with a waddy was a formidable foe
- bastinado
- (or bastinade),
- bat,
- baton,
- billy,
- billy club,
- bludgeon,
- cane,
- club,
- cudgel,
- nightstick,
- rod,
- rung
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[Scottish],
- sap,
- shillelagh
- (also shillalah),
- staff,
- truncheon
a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range
- the waddies were preparing to start branding