Alluvion

Definitions: Alluvion

Alluvion

Noun

1. Gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment.

2. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land.

3. Clay or slit or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down.

Date "alluvion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references)

Etymology: Alluvion \Al*lu"vi*on\, noun. [French expression alluvion, from Latin expression alluvio, from alluere to wash against; ad luere, equiv. to lavare, to wash. See Lave.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Deposited from flowing or still water ; deposits of debris, soil and particles resulting from erosion transported by rainwater, by a stream or by the sea. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	See:alluvium. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Alluvion

Synonyms: alluvial deposit (n), alluvial sediment (n), alluvium (n), deluge (n), flood (n), inundation (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Land	Coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium, alluvion; ancon.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Alluvion

Etymologies containing "alluvion": Alluvious. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Alluvion" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (alluvium).

Expression using "alluvion": alluvion period. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "alluvion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		alluvium (alluvium), alluvio (alluvium), alluvie (alluvium). (various references)

Albanian		aluvion (alluvium). (various references)

Arabic		‏فيضان (deluge, flood, flow, flux, high, high tide, overflow, rise, rising, spate, stream). (various references)

Bulgarian		увеличаване на суша чрез наноси, наводнение (flood, flooding, flowage, freshet, inundation, overflow), нанос (alluvium, blanket, debris, deposit, deposition, drift, float, silt, warp, wash), алувий (alluvial, alluvium). (various references)

Czech		náplav (alluvium). (various references)

Danish		alluvium (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash), alluvial deposit (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash), aflejring (accretion, aggradation, alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluviation, alluvium, bedding, crud, deposit, deposition, drift, drop crater, droplet impaction, fluvial outwash, fouling, point deposit, precipitate, sediment, sedimentation, silting, spray coating, spray deposit), flodaflejring (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial deposit, fluvial outwash, fluvial sediment). (various references)

Dutch		alluvium (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash). (various references)

Esperanto		aluvio (alluvium). (various references)

Faeroese		strandvarp (alluvium). (various references)

Finnish		alluviumi (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash), alluvium (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash), alluuvi (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash), tulvamaa (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash, inundated land, riverside soil), maatuma (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash), liettymä (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash), lietemaa (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash). (various references)

French		alluvion (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium), inondation. (various references)

German		Alluvium (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash). (various references)

Greek		προσχώσεις (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash), αλλούβια (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash), αλλούβιο (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash), θαλάσσια πρόσχωση. (various references)

Hungarian		hordalék (alluvium, burden, drift, offal, river deposits, silt, wash). (various references)

Italian		alluvione (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, flood, flooding, fluvial outwash, inundation, rainstorm). (various references)

Manx		thalloo gleayragh, thalloo claddee. (various references)

Pig Latin		alluvionay

Portuguese		aluvião (accretion, aggradation, alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluviation, alluvium, deluge, flood, fluvial outwash, silt, silting, wash). (various references)

Russian		нанос (alluvium, bank, blanket). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		taloženje (precipitation, settling, subsidence). (various references)

Spanish		aluvión (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash). (various references)

Swedish		alluvial avlagring (alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvium, fluvial outwash). (various references)

Turkish		alüvyondan oluşan arazi, alüvyon (alluvium, placer, silt), lığ. (various references)

Ukranian		нанос (overburden), намив, повінь (deluge, flood, freshet, overflow). (various references)

Vietnamese		phù sa, đất b�"i (alluvial). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "alluvion": alluvions. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "alluvion" (pronounced 'Al*lu"vi*on'): Abacination, Abaction, Abaddon, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Ablution, Abluvion, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Aboon, Abortion, Abrasion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstersion, Abstraction, Abstrusion, Absumption, Abusion, Abutilon, Accension, Accentuation, Acceptation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-n-o-u-v"
	-3 letters: aloin, anvil, avion, llano, nival, villa, vinal, viola, voila.
	-4 letters: anil, lain, lino, lion, loan, loin, luna, nail, naoi, nill, noil, nova, null, olla, oval, ulan, ulna, ulva, unai, vail, vain, vial, vill, vina, vino, viol.
	-5 letters: ail, ain, all, ani, avo, ill, ion, lav, lin, luv, nil, oil, ova, van, vau, via.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-n-o-u-v"
	+1 letter: alluvions.
	+2 letters: involucral, univocally, villainous.
	+3 letters: illuviation, valuational, voluntarily.
	+4 letters: illuviations, involutional, outcavilling, outrivalling, ultraviolent, villainously.
	+5 letters: bougainvillea, involuntarily, ultraviolence, unequivocally, valuationally, ventriloquial, vulcanologies, vulcanologist.
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