geographical area vs watershed

watershed vs geographical area

geographical area and watershed both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
geographical area	Yes	No	No	No
watershed	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, watershed is a hyponym of geographical area; that is, watershed is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than geographical area:

geographical area: a demarcated area of the Earth
watershed: the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet

Other hyponyms of geographical area include soil, territory, colony, dependency, semidesert, narco-state, place, property, basin, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin, river basin, environs, purlieu, geographical zone, zone, environment, environs, surround, surroundings, dust bowl, hemisphere, flashpoint, hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot, panhandle, country, rural area, sphere, sphere of influence, field, settlement, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, populated area, urban area, wild, wilderness, killing field, northern Europe, French region, Baltic Republic, Baltic State, Colony, Dar al-Islam, House of Islam, Dar al-harb, House of War.

geographical area (noun)	watershed (noun)
a demarcated area of the Earth	an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
	a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
	the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet

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