sewer

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

Verb

To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.

Sinonieme

drain

seamstress

sink

gutter

dressmaker

tailor

cloaca

cesspool

sewerage

seamster

needlewoman

needleworker

sempstress

sump

toilet

🚽

cesspit

conduit

ditch

sewage

sewage system

sewing method

sticher

SEW

foul sewer

canal

foul water sewer

channel

drainage

drainage system

drainpipe

draught

gallery

gooseneck

latrine

major-domo

mine

modiste

piercer

sap

seamer

sewerage system

stitcher

tube

writer

✍️🧑‍🦱

Vertalings

égout

riool

Abwasserkanal

fogna

alcantarilla

cloaca

cloaca

zinkput

naaister

esgoto

fognatura

Kanalisation

cloaque

cloaca

cloaca

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈs(j)uːə/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: sewer

Geërf van Middle English: seware

In summary

From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”) or from a root *exaquāre.