"watering hole" meaning in English

See watering hole in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: En-au-watering hole.ogg [Australia] Forms: watering holes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} watering hole (plural watering holes)
  1. A depression in which water collects and where animals come to drink. Synonyms: waterhole Derived forms: watering hole attack Related terms: swimming hole
    Sense id: en-watering_hole-en-noun-M8nZ4Coe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54
  2. (idiomatic) A bar or other local drinking establishment. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: pub, public house, saloon, tavern, pub Translations (bar etc.): кръчма (krǎčma) [feminine] (Bulgarian), juottola (Finnish), кр́чма (kŕčma) [feminine] (Macedonian)
    Sense id: en-watering_hole-en-noun-67~ndHQy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'bar etc.': 0 100

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for watering hole meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "watering holes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "watering hole (plural watering holes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "word": "watering hole attack"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A depression in which water collects and where animals come to drink."
      ],
      "id": "en-watering_hole-en-noun-M8nZ4Coe",
      "links": [
        [
          "depression",
          "depression"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ],
        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "word": "swimming hole"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "waterhole"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bar or other local drinking establishment."
      ],
      "id": "en-watering_hole-en-noun-67~ndHQy",
      "links": [
        [
          "bar",
          "bar"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A bar or other local drinking establishment."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pub"
        },
        {
          "word": "public house"
        },
        {
          "word": "saloon"
        },
        {
          "word": "tavern"
        },
        {
          "word": "pub"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "krǎčma",
          "sense": "bar etc.",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "кръчма"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "bar etc.",
          "word": "juottola"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "kŕčma",
          "sense": "bar etc.",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "кр́чма"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-watering hole.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/En-au-watering_hole.ogg/En-au-watering_hole.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/En-au-watering_hole.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "watering hole"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "watering hole attack"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "watering holes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "watering hole (plural watering holes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "swimming hole"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A depression in which water collects and where animals come to drink."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "depression",
          "depression"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ],
        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "waterhole"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bar or other local drinking establishment."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bar",
          "bar"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A bar or other local drinking establishment."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pub"
        },
        {
          "word": "public house"
        },
        {
          "word": "saloon"
        },
        {
          "word": "tavern"
        },
        {
          "word": "pub"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-watering hole.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/En-au-watering_hole.ogg/En-au-watering_hole.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/En-au-watering_hole.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "krǎčma",
      "sense": "bar etc.",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кръчма"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "bar etc.",
      "word": "juottola"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kŕčma",
      "sense": "bar etc.",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кр́чма"
    }
  ],
  "word": "watering hole"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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.