Reservoir

//ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ//

Synonyms for "reservoir" (140 found)

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Closest matches (28)

Noun(1 words)
artificial lake

Strong matches (42)

Related words (70)

Noun(2 words)
man-made lakesource

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More general

5 entries

Related terms

1 entries

derived

10 entries

is a

7 entries

part of

1 entries

related to

11 entries

Translations

145 translations across 53 languages.

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Albanian

2 entries
  • rezervuar noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • ujëmbledhës noun (place where anything is kept in store)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • δεξαμενή noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Arabic

4 entries
  • جَابِيَة noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • حَوْض noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • خَزَّان noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • فِنْطَاس noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Armenian

1 entries
  • ջրամբար noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Azerbaijani

3 entries
  • hövzə noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • su anbarı noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • su hövzəsi noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Belarusian

4 entries
  • вадасхо́вішча noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • рэзервуа́р noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • рэзэрвуа́р noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • схо́вішча noun (place where anything is kept in store)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • водохрани́лище noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • резервоа́р noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • склад noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • хранилище noun (place where anything is kept in store)

Catalan

1 entries
  • embassament noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 儲備 /储备 noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • 水庫 /水库 noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Czech

2 entries
  • nádrž noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • nádrž noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Danish

1 entries
  • reservoir noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Dari

1 entries
  • حَوْض noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Dutch

2 entries
  • reservoir noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • stuwmeer noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • rezervujo noun (place where anything is kept in store)

Extremaduran

2 entries
  • embalsi noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • embalsi noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Finnish

4 entries
  • allas noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • järvi noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • patoallas noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • tekoallas noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

French

2 entries
  • réservoir noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • réservoir noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Galician

4 entries
  • alxibe noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • banzado noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • canfurna noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • cisterna noun (place where anything is kept in store)

Georgian

1 entries
  • წყალსაცავი noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

German

4 entries
  • Behälter noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • Behältnis noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • Reservoir noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • Stausee noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Greek

2 entries
  • δεξαμενή noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • υδροταμιευτήρας noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Hindi

3 entries
  • कोश noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • जलाशय noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • हौज़ noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • tár noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • tároló noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • tározó noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • víztároló noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Indonesian

4 entries
  • penampungan noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • reservoir noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • takungan noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • waduk noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Iranian Persian

3 entries
  • حُوْض noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • مَخْزَن noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • مَخْزَنِ سَدّ noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Italian

2 entries
  • bacino noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • invaso noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 貯水池 noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Kazakh

2 entries
  • су қоймасы noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • суқойма noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Korean

1 entries
  • 저수지 noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • суу сактагыч noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • вештачко езеро noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • резервоа́р noun (place where anything is kept in store)

Malay

1 entries
  • takungan noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Marathi

2 entries
  • कोठी noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • जलाशय noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Mongolian

2 entries
  • усан сан noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • усан цөөрөм noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • reservoar noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • reservoar noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries
  • بركه noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • حوض noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Polish

4 entries
  • akwen noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • rezerwuar noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • rezerwuar noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • zbiornik noun (place where anything is kept in store)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • barragem noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • reservatório noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • reservatório noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Romanian

3 entries
  • lac de acumulare noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • rezervor noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • rezervor noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Russian

4 entries
  • водохрани́лище noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • водоём noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • резервуа́р noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • храни́лище noun (place where anything is kept in store)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • rezervòār noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • vještačko jezero noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • vještačko jezero noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • вештачко језеро noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Slovak

1 entries
  • nádrž noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Slovene

4 entries
  • rezervoar noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • umetno jezero noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • vodni zbiralnik noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • zbiralnik noun (place where anything is kept in store)

Spanish

3 entries
  • embalse noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • pantano noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • pantano noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Swedish

2 entries
  • reservoar noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • vattenmagasin noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Tatar

1 entries
  • сусаклагыч noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Thai

1 entries
  • อ่างเก็บน้ำ noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Turkish

4 entries
  • ambar noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • depo noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • mahzen noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • rezerv noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • водо́йма noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • водо́ймище noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • водосхо́вище noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • резервуа́р noun (place where anything is kept in store)

Urdu

1 entries
  • حَوض noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Uzbek

2 entries
  • suv havzasi noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • suv ombori noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • hồ chứa nước noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)
  • kho noun (place where anything is kept in store)

Welsh

2 entries
  • cronfa noun (place where anything is kept in store)
  • cronfa (ddŵr) noun (large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply)

Sample sentences

16 total sentences available.

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The town is supplied with water from a reservoir in the hills.

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As the iron was heating up, Mary poured distilled water into the reservoir to make steam.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo is the largest country in the Congo Basin and home to a massive and largely inaccessible rainforest that is Earth’s second largest reservoir of carbon in vegetation, second only to the Amazon Basin rainforest.

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The flood-prone Yangtze river, which runs from Yunnan in the southwest to Jiangsu and Shanghai on the east coast, has seen a massive increase in water volumes, causing flooding in many of its tributaries and bringing water volumes in the giant Three Gorges reservoir close to record levels.

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