Synonyms of hydrants

hydrants

noun

plural of hydrant

as in pipes

a discharge faucet at which water may be drawn from a water main (as for fighting fires)

The work of the firefighters was made more difficult by the absence of hydrants in the neighborhood.

Related Words

• pipes
• leaders
• lines
• tiles
• fire hydrants
• fireplugs
• channels
• tubes
• standpipes
• ducts
• conduits
• penstocks
• pipings
• troughs
• drains
• drainpipes
• pipelines
• smokestacks
• funnels
• stovepipes
• waterspouts
• spouts
• waste pipes
• pipeages
• pipages

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hydrants

The hydrants that the firemen were drawing from ran dry in the middle of the fight, Gonzalez said, and his colleagues had to leave the station in search of water. —Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025

Those hydrants were at Lehigh Avenue at Churchill Street, Lehigh Avenue at Dempster Street, the north side of Dempster Street halfway between Lehigh Avenue and Birch Avenue, and Dempster Street at Birch Avenue, the Facebook post states. —Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025

If the park is not available, Cal Fire could still pick up water at the park’s hydrants to fill their trucks and dump their gray water left over from showers and kitchen sinks at the park for a fee, Wolski said. —Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025

Volkert said the departments that have no hydrants have plans in place and practice using those water supplies. —Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025