"hydrant" meaning in English

See hydrant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈhaɪdɹənt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hydrant.wav Forms: hydrants [plural]
Etymology: An irregular formation: hydr- + -ant, originally US English. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|hydr|ant}} hydr- + -ant Head templates: {{en-noun}} hydrant (plural hydrants)
  1. An outlet from a liquid/fluid main often consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached from which fluid (e.g. water or fuel) can be tapped. Derived forms: fire hydrant Translations: tűzcsap (Hungarian)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Hydrant",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Hydrant",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Hydrant"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "hydrant",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: hydrant",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "hydrante",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "hydrante",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: hydrant, hydrante"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "idrante",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: idrante",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: idrante"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hydr",
        "3": "ant"
      },
      "expansion": "hydr- + -ant",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "An irregular formation: hydr- + -ant, originally US English.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hydrants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hydrant (plural hydrants)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with hydr-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ant",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 5 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "fire hydrant"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Down Town Back-alleys”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 30:",
          "text": "A horde of dirty children play about the dripping hydrant, the only thing in the alley that thinks enough of its chance to make the most of it: it is the best it can do.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An outlet from a liquid/fluid main often consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached from which fluid (e.g. water or fuel) can be tapped."
      ],
      "id": "en-hydrant-en-noun-wvIEtlUJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "outlet",
          "outlet"
        ],
        [
          "liquid",
          "liquid"
        ],
        [
          "main",
          "main"
        ],
        [
          "upright",
          "upright"
        ],
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ],
        [
          "valve",
          "valve"
        ],
        [
          "tap",
          "tap"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "word": "tűzcsap"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhaɪdɹənt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hydrant.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hydrant.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hydrant.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hydrant.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hydrant.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hydrant"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "fire hydrant"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Hydrant",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Hydrant",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Hydrant"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "hydrant",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: hydrant",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "hydrante",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "hydrante",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: hydrant, hydrante"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "idrante",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: idrante",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: idrante"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hydr",
        "3": "ant"
      },
      "expansion": "hydr- + -ant",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "An irregular formation: hydr- + -ant, originally US English.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hydrants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hydrant (plural hydrants)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with hydr-",
        "English terms suffixed with -ant",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 5 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Down Town Back-alleys”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 30:",
          "text": "A horde of dirty children play about the dripping hydrant, the only thing in the alley that thinks enough of its chance to make the most of it: it is the best it can do.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An outlet from a liquid/fluid main often consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached from which fluid (e.g. water or fuel) can be tapped."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "outlet",
          "outlet"
        ],
        [
          "liquid",
          "liquid"
        ],
        [
          "main",
          "main"
        ],
        [
          "upright",
          "upright"
        ],
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ],
        [
          "valve",
          "valve"
        ],
        [
          "tap",
          "tap"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhaɪdɹənt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hydrant.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hydrant.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hydrant.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hydrant.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hydrant.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "tűzcsap"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hydrant"
}

Download raw JSONL data for hydrant meaning in English (2.6kB)

{
  "called_from": "page/2517",
  "msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'outlet from a liquid/fluid main often consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached from which fluid (e.g. water or fuel) can be tapped', 2: 'fire hydrant'}",
  "path": [
    "hydrant",
    "trans-top-see"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "hydrant",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.