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sewer en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈs(j)uːə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • so͞o′ər (General-American)
  • (UK) audio
  • so͞o′ə (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈsuɚ/ (General-American)
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  1. A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
    • One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination. 2014 June 14, “It’s a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2014:
    • There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.

Forms

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sewers Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

car sewer · subsewer · sewerlike · sewer service · sewer socialism · sewerage · sanitary sewer · sewerman · supersewer · sewery · sewage · sewerable · sewer rat · sewerless · leaf sewer · storm sewer · sewer fly · sewer gas · sewer socialist · common sewer · sewer slide

Translations (87)

fi viemäri (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · es albollón (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ar بَالُوعَة (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · eo kloako (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · tl alkantarilya (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · az lağım (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · it fognatura (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ru колле́ктор (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · mi paipa harihari paru (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ru сто́чная труба́ (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · es albañal (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · fy rioel (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ast alcantarelláu (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · gl tréstiga (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · az kanalizasiya (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · pl rynsztok (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ta சாக்கடை (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · is frárennsli (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · sk stoka (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · la cloāca (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · it cloaca (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · nn kloakk (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · nl afvoerpijp (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · gl ludreira (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · gl sumidoiro (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · eu estolda (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · bg кана́л (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · uk каналіза́ція (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · hu szennyvízcsatorna (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · cmn 滲溝 /渗沟 (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · cs stoka (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · is lokræsi (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · es albañar (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ota لغم (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · he בִּיב (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · hu kanális (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · fr égout (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ga séarach (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ru канализа́ция (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · es cloaca (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ru канализацио́нная труба́ (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · es desagüe (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · es alcantarillado (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · tr kanalizasyon (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · it chiavica (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · id got (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ja 下水道 (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ca clavegueram (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · alt суу агары (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · cy carthffos (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · cmn 下水道 (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · uk сті́чна труба́ (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ru сток (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · cy ceuffos (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · be каналіза́цыя (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · pt esgoto (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · grc γόργυρα (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · cmn 陰溝 /阴沟 (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · cs kanál (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · he בִּיּוּב (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · sk kanalizácia (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · es alcantarilla (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · mi paipa waiparakaingaki (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · be сцёкавая труба́ (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ko 하수도 (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · vi cống (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · is holræsi (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · pl ścieki (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · is klóak (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · et kanalisatsioon (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · hu csatorna (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · pl kanalizacja (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · mk ка́нал (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · tr lağım döşemi (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · de Abwasserkanal (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · cs kanalizace (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ca claveguera (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · nl riool (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · sv kloak (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · el υπόνομος (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · it fogna (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · de Kanalisation (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ast alcantariella (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · sk kanál (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · nb kloakk (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · ota گریز (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) · id selokan (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage)

sewer en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈs(j)uːə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • so͞o′ər (General-American)
  • (UK) audio
  • so͞o′ə (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈsuɚ/ (General-American)
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

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.

Meanings

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

Forms

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sewered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sewered Tense=Past lexicographic
sewering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sewers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

sewer en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈs(j)uːə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • so͞oər (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈsuɚ/ (General-American)
  • so͞o'ə (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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”).

Meanings

  1. (historical) An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.
    • His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter. 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 287
    • 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. 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 116–117:

Forms

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sewers Number=Plur lexicographic

sewer en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • sō'ər (US)
  • /ˈsoʊɚ/ (US)
  • (US) audio
  • sō'ə (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈsəʊə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

sew + -er

Meanings

  1. 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 goods. 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 131–132:
  2. A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.
    • the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana

Forms

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Synonyms

sempster (one who sews) · sewist (one who sews) · seamstress (one who sews) · seamster (one who sews) · tailor (one who sews) · sempstress (one who sews)

Translations (41)

sv sömmerska (person who sews clothing) · fr couturière (person who sews clothing) · nl naaier (person who sews clothing) · cs šič (person who sews clothing) · de Näherin (person who sews clothing) · uk швач (person who sews clothing) · es cosedora (person who sews clothing) · ar خَيَّاط (person who sews clothing) · cs šička (person who sews clothing) · af naaier (person who sews clothing) · es costurera (person who sews clothing) · gl costureira (person who sews clothing) · vo hinägan (person who sews clothing) · bg шива́ч (person who sews clothing) · tr dikişçi (person who sews clothing) · fr couturier (person who sews clothing) · gl costureiro (person who sews clothing) · de Näher (person who sews clothing) · fi ompelija (person who sews clothing) · ru швея́ (person who sews clothing) · nl naaister (person who sews clothing) · et õmbleja (person who sews clothing) · be краве́ц (person who sews clothing) · ota دیكیشجی (person who sews clothing) · be шаве́ц (person who sews clothing) · ru портни́ха (person who sews clothing) · ota ترزی (person who sews clothing) · bg шива́чка (person who sews clothing) · es costurero (person who sews clothing) · pt costureiro (person who sews clothing) · pl szwacz (person who sews clothing) · pl szwaczka (person who sews clothing) · sv sömmare (person who sews clothing) · ru портно́й (person who sews clothing) · ru швец (person who sews clothing) · vo jinägan (person who sews clothing) · uk краве́ць (person who sews clothing) · es cosedor (person who sews clothing) · tr terzi (person who sews clothing) · da syer (person who sews clothing) · vo nägan (person who sews clothing)