falls

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often used in place names to mean a very wide waterfall, often made of many separate waterfalls:

Niagara Falls

Visitors had been coming to the falls for decades before Kaieteur was named a national park.

The falls are named after a war chief.

There is an overland route to the falls which involves a two-day drive.

We did a five-hour hike to the base of the falls.

a waterfall