sewer
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sewer¹
- /ˈs(j)uːə/ UK
- /ˈsuɚ/ US
Sounds like suer · Rhymes with -uːə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
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.
noun sewers
- A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage. There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.
verb sewers · sewering · sewered
- To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.
sewer²
- /ˈs(j)uːə/ UK
- /ˈsuɚ/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle English seware, seuere, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir (“find a seat for”), from Latin assidēre, present active infinitive of assideō (“attend to”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit”).
noun sewers
- An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes. While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.
sewer³
- /ˈsəʊə/ UK
- /ˈsoʊɚ/ US
Sounds like sower · Rhymes with -əʊə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
sew + -er
noun sewers
-
One who sews.
Up under the roof three men are making boys’ jackets at twenty cents a piece, of which the sewer takes eight, the ironer three, the finisher five cents, and the buttonhole-maker two and a quarter, leaving a cent and three-quarters to pay for the drumming up, the fetching and bringing back of the goo
Similar: sempster, sempstress, seamster, seamstress, tailor, sewist
- A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk. the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: sewerage, cloaca, drain, drainpipe, gutter, manhole, drainage, cesspool, sewage, plumbing, culvert, wastewater, nullah, swamp, water, storm
Translations
Every language
noun pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
| Español | alcantarilla, cloaca, alcantarillado, albañal, desagüe, albollón |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 하수도 hasudo |
| 日本語 | 下水道 gesuidō |
| 中文 | 下水道 xiàshuǐdào, 滲溝 /渗沟 shèngōu, 陰溝 /阴沟 yīngōu |
| Português | esgoto |
| Français | égout |
| Deutsch | Kanalisation, Abwasserkanal |
| Italiano | fogna, chiavica, cloaca, fognatura |
| Ελληνικά | υπόνομος ypónomos |
| Русский | сто́чная труба́ stóčnaja trubá, канализацио́нная труба́ kanalizaciónnaja trubá, колле́ктор kolléktor, канализа́ция kanalizácija, сток stok |
| Tiếng Việt | cống |
| العربية | بَالُوعَة bālūʕa |
| עברית | בִּיב biv, בִּיּוּב biyúv |
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title = {sewer},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sewer},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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