water tower

noun

: a tower or standpipe serving as a reservoir to deliver water at a required head

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Two 32-meter turntable ladders are also on site, deployed as water towers to help extinguish the fire from height. Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025 Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned. Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025 On top, there’s a water tower dressed up to look like a 14th-century church tower, which peers over two matching penthouses. Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2025 The iron girders of a water tower were reeds bending in the wind. Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for water tower

Word History

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of water tower was in 1835

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“Water tower.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20tower. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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