(chiefly Canada) An area of an ocean, sea, lake, or river which is not covered by ice.
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Open-water Sentence Examples
Boyd Alexander, a British officer, further explored the lake, which then contained few stretches of open water.
From this point a large area of open water was seen which was believed to be an "open Polar Sea," a chimera which played an important and delusive role in subsequent explorations.