drinking water

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   water suitable for drinking

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Questions about drinking water

What does drinking water mean?

drinking water means "water suitable for drinking".

Is drinking water a common word?

drinking water is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.