"water drinker" meaning in English

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      "form": "water drinkers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1789, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 21",
          "text": "Could not resist Metcalfe's fine dishes and wines. Sir Joshua began to be a water-drinker.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 326",
          "text": "Ben Franklin, an American and a water drinker, found his fellow workers at Watts's printing house ‘great guzzlers of beer’ around 1725.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "alcoholic",
          "alcoholic"
        ],
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          "teetotaler",
          "teetotaler"
        ]
      ]
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Christianity",
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            "Fundamental"
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          "source": "w"
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      "glosses": [
        "A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
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        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "wine",
          "wine"
        ],
        [
          "Eucharist",
          "Eucharist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christianity, obsolete) A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who drinks the waters at a spa."
      ],
      "id": "en-water_drinker-en-noun-DfFIYF7d",
      "links": [
        [
          "spa",
          "spa"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now historical) Someone who drinks the waters at a spa."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "water drinker"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "water drinkers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1789, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 21",
          "text": "Could not resist Metcalfe's fine dishes and wines. Sir Joshua began to be a water-drinker.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 326",
          "text": "Ben Franklin, an American and a water drinker, found his fellow workers at Watts's printing house ‘great guzzlers of beer’ around 1725.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler."
      ],
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          "alcoholic",
          "alcoholic"
        ],
        [
          "teetotaler",
          "teetotaler"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist."
      ],
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          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "wine",
          "wine"
        ],
        [
          "Eucharist",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christianity, obsolete) A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ],
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        "Christianity"
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "Someone who drinks the waters at a spa."
      ],
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          "spa",
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      ],
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        "(now historical) Someone who drinks the waters at a spa."
      ],
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  "word": "water drinker"
}