Noun: waterfall
| Singular | waterfall |
| Plural | waterfalls |
Sample Sentences
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Hello, my love, I heard a kiss from you / Red magic satin playing near too / All through the morning rain I gaze, the sun doesn't shine / Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind [1977, Brothers Johnson, “Strawberry Letter 23”, in Right on Time:]
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A waterfall of mist came from the open freezer.
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A very long project […] had taken a whole group of people through a painful waterfall development process.
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Hey man, can I take a waterfall from your bottle?
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I found home a dreary place after my long absence; for half the children I had known were now wearing whiskers or waterfalls, […] [1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, pages 569–570:]
Nouns inflected like waterfall
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English waterfal, waterfalle, from Old English wæterġefeall (“waterfall”), equivalent to water + fall. Cognate with West Frisian wetterfal (“waterfall”), Dutch waterval (“waterfall”), German Wasserfall (“waterfall”), Swedish vattenfall (“waterfall”). See: Middle English Nouns '
waterfal', Dutch Nouns '
waterval', German Nouns '
Wasserfall', Swedish Nouns '
vattenfall'.