The waterworks is located not far from my home.
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Waterworks
//ˈwɔːtəˌwəːks//
Synonyms for "waterworks" (59 found)
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Related words (29)
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2 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
50 translations across 20 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- كُلْوَة noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
- كُلْيَة noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
Bulgarian
1 entries- водоснабдяване noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
Czech
1 entries- vodovod noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
Danish
2 entries- vandforsyning noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
- vandværk noun (any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system)
Dutch
2 entries- waterleiding noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
- waterwerk noun ((archaic in English) engineering works relating to the conveyance and flow of fluids (principally water))
Finnish
4 entries- vesilaitos noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
- vesilaitos noun (any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system)
- vesirakennustyö noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
- vesirakennustyö noun ((archaic in English) engineering works relating to the conveyance and flow of fluids (principally water))
French
2 entries- station de traitement d'eau noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
- systéme hydraulique noun (any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system)
Georgian
3 entries- წყალმომარაგება noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
- წყალმომარაგების სადგური noun (any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system)
- წყალმომარაგების სისტემა noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
German
4 entries- Geheul noun (crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional)
- Tränen noun (crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional)
- Wasseraufbereitungsanlage noun (any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system)
- Wasserkunst noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
Hungarian
4 entries- bőgés noun (crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional)
- pityergés noun (crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional)
- szökőkút noun ((historical in English) hydraulic apparatus by which a supply of water is furnished for ornamental purposes)
- sírás noun (crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional)
Italian
3 entries- acquedotto noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
- sistema idraulico noun (any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system)
- sistema idrico noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
Japanese
1 entries- 上水道 noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
Korean
1 entries- 수도 noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
Macedonian
2 entries- водовод noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
- водоснабдување noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- vannverk noun (any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system)
- vassverk noun (any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- vassverk noun (any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- vȍdovōd noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
- во̏дово̄д noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
Spanish
1 entries- llanto noun (crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional)
Swedish
1 entries- vattenverk noun (any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system)
Thai
1 entries- ประปา noun (water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
They’re being deployed at both the waterworks and a rebuilt sewage treatment plant, and once the new technology is in place, Araike expects “zero disruption” of Kobe’s water service after the next great earthquake.
Source: tatoeba (11576430)
She is employed by a waterworks at the outskirts of the city.
Source: wiktionary
She turned on the waterworks when we told her the old man was dead, but she was asking questions about the will soon enough.
Source: wiktionary
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