water fountain

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   a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water

   Synonymsdrinking fountainbubbler

   Broaderfountain

Questions about water fountain

What does water fountain mean?

water fountain means "a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water".

What is another word for water fountain?

Close synonyms include drinking fountain, bubbler. 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 water fountain a common word?

water fountain 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.