fire hydrant

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   an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire

   Synonymsfireplugplug

   Broaderhydrant

Questions about fire hydrant

What does fire hydrant mean?

fire hydrant means "an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire".

What is another word for fire hydrant?

Close synonyms include fireplug, plug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fire hydrant a common word?

fire hydrant 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.