water tower

noun

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

Examples of water tower in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Pressed against the ship's railing, the sailors spotted a lighthouse and a water tower through binoculars. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026

The location on Camp Bowie Boulevard opened in 1980 as the Under the Tower Sandwich Shoppe, named for an old city water tower that loomed until 1986 behind the building. — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2026

Look out for the town's whimsical water tower, painted with rainbow stripes to evoke a hot air balloon, from the interstate (on Cove Road). — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2026

Power brings a warmer and more wayward sensibility to such material than, say, the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose deadpan grids of coal tipples and water towers drained industrial structures of affect. — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 23 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for water tower

• candlepower
• cauliflower
• overpower
• superpower
• vavasour
• waterpower
• airpower
• brainpower
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• empower
• firepower
• horsepower