Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun headwater

1 sense of headwater

Sense 1
headwater -- (the source of a river; "the headwaters of the Nile")
       => beginning, origin, root, rootage, source -- (the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root")