Definitions for sewer
ˈsu ərsew·er

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sewer, sewerage, cloacanoun

   a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water

2. sewernoun

   someone who sews

   "a sewer of fine gowns"

3. gutter, sewer, toiletnoun

   misfortune resulting in lost effort or money

   "his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sewerverb

   1. An officer who serves up a feast.

   Marshall’d feast,
   Serv’d up in hall with sewers and seneshals:
   The skill of artifice or office mean. John Milton.

   The cook and sewer, each his talent tries,
   In various figures scenes of dishes rise:

   2. A passage for water to run through, now corrupted to shore.

   John Cowell.

   The fenmen hold that the sewers must be kept so, as the water may not stay too long in the spring till the weeds and sedge be grown up. Francis Bacon.

   Men suffer their private in judgment to be drawn into the common sewer, or stream of the present vogue. Charles I .

   As one who long in populous city pent,
   Where houses thick, and sewers annoy the air,
   Forth issuing on a summer’s morn, to breathe
   Among the pleasant villages and farms
   Adjoin’d, from each thing met conceives delight. John Milton.

   3. He that uses a needle.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sewer

   A sewer is an underground system or network of pipes designed to transport waste materials, including solid waste and waste water, from households, industrial, and commercial buildings to treatment facilities or disposal points. It is a key component of a city's or town's sanitation system.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sewernoun

   one who sews, or stitches

2. Sewernoun

   a small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)

3. Sewernoun

   a drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities

4. Sewernoun

   formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests

5. Etymology: [OF. sewiere, seuwiere, ultimately fr. L. ex out + a derivative of aqua water; cf. OF. essevour a drain, essever, esseuwer, essiaver, to cause to flow, to drain, to flow, LL. exaquatorium a channel through which water runs off. Cf. Ewer, Aquarium.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sewer

   sū′ėr, n. an officer who set down and removed the dishes at a feast. [O. Fr. asseour—asseoir, to set down—L. ad, to, sedēre, to sit. Skeat makes it from M. E. sewen, to set meat, sew, pottage—A.S. seaw, juice.]

2. Sewer

   sū′ėr, n. an underground passage for draining off water and filth.—ns. Sew′age, refuse carried off by sewers; Sew′erage, the whole sewers of a city: drainage by sewers; Sew′er-gas, the contaminated air of sewers.—Open sewer, a sewer of which the channel is exposed to the air. [O. Fr. seuwiere, a canal—L. ex, out, aqua, water.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SEWER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sewer is ranked #61123 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Sewer surname appeared 329 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sewer.
   
   82.3% or 271 total occurrences were Black.
   10.3% or 34 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   4.2% or 14 total occurrences were White.
   3% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Drain
   • Misfortune
   • Needleworker

Anagrams for sewer »

1. sweer

2. resew

How to pronounce sewer?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sewer in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sewer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of sewer in a Sentence

1. Tom Lehrer:

   Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

2. Donna Brazile:

   I hope Bill Clinton starts talking about women's issues so that voters can see what a hypocrite he is and how Hillary abused those women! you can't put this under the rug. It's out there. So yes, deal with it. But you know, we can also says it's an old issue, this election is about the future... If Donald Trump wants to go in the sewer and play this game, do it.

3. Marc Hagan-Guirey:

   These are the product of a lot of patience and a lot of trial and error, for me, though, I link this back to my childhood. I've always made things out of stuff you'd otherwise put in the bin. My currency was toilet roll tubes and cereal boxes. I would make fortresses for my action figures out all sorts of things. Cleaned out tin cans with both ends opened made perfect sewer pipes for Teenage Mutant Ninja turtle action figures.

4. Susan Wright:

   This is illegal, immoral, and wrong, there's not a sewer too deep that some politicians won't plumb. Imagine it : someone is attacking my late husband, the love of my life, a man who gave me such joy in life.

5. Michael Long:

   The last time I checked, they’re all human beings and if they’re senior citizens they can go to any senior citizen center, michael Long want to talk about throwing peoples ’ tax dollars down the sewer ? This is a real, classic example.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sewer
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=sewer
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sewer
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=sewer
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html