"drinking fountain" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: drinking fountains [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} drinking fountain (plural drinking fountains)
  1. (Upper Midwestern US, Western US) A device in a public place that provides water to drink. Tags: US, Western Synonyms: water fountain, bubbler [dialectal] Translations (device that is used to provide water to drink): 飲水機 (Chinese Mandarin), 饮水机 (yǐnshuǐjī) (Chinese Mandarin), 飲水臺 (Chinese Mandarin), 饮水台 (yǐnshuǐtái) (Chinese Mandarin), drinkfontein (Dutch), trinkfontano (Esperanto), juoma-allas (Finnish), fontaine à boire (French), Trinkbrunnen [masculine] (German), ברזייה (Hebrew), בִּרְזִיָּה (birziyá) [feminine] (Hebrew), ivókút (Hungarian), fontanella (Italian), 水飲み場 (mizu-nomiba) (alt: みずのみば) (Japanese), tó háálínígi (Navajo), bebedouro (Portuguese), cișmea (Romanian), fuente de beber (Spanish), bebedero (Spanish), dricksfontän (Swedish), འཐུང་ཡག་འཐོར་ཆུ ('thung yag 'thor chu) (Tibetan), su sebili (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
          "word": "ivókút"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
          "word": "fontanella"
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          "alt": "みずのみば",
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          "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
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          "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
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          "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
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          "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
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          "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
          "word": "dricksfontän"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "飲水機"
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      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "trinkfontano"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "juoma-allas"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "fontaine à boire"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Trinkbrunnen"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "ברזייה"
    },
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
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      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "בִּרְזִיָּה"
    },
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "ivókút"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "fontanella"
    },
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      "alt": "みずのみば",
      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "水飲み場"
    },
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      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "tó háálínígi"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "bebedouro"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "cișmea"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "fuente de beber"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "bebedero"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "dricksfontän"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "'thung yag 'thor chu",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "འཐུང་ཡག་འཐོར་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "device that is used to provide water to drink",
      "word": "su sebili"
    }
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  "word": "drinking fountain"
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