water fountain

noun

1. a drinking fountain, water cooler, or other apparatus supplying drinking water.

Example Sentences

An opening ceremony that includes a flash mob on the 405, a parade of food trucks down Hollywood Boulevard and dancing water fountains in Echo Park Lake?

From Los Angeles Times

More than 300 water fountains have been installed in the city and there will be access to shaded areas at venues.

From BBC

Biden also will meet with faculty and students at a Wilmington school that replaced a water fountain with high levels of lead with funding from the law.

From Seattle Times

Those cowboys started to see groups of migrants stranded near the border, so the Chiltons installed water fountains in the desert to help keep people alive.

From New York Times

"Which isn't really a water fountain today because the water's frozen," George added.

From Literature

Related Words

• faucet

More About Water Fountain

What is a water fountain?

A water fountain is a device that ejects a fountainlike stream of water that can be drunk from without a cup.

Water fountains are often for public use—they provide access to drinking water in places like government buildings, schools, and parks.

There are many different designs for water fountains, but they all generally work by ejecting a jet of water that can be drunk from directly.

Water fountains are also commonly called drinking fountains. Less commonly, water fountain can sometimes be used to refer to a water cooler.

The term water fountain should not be confused with the kind of fountain that’s mainly for decoration, such as in city plazas, though of course such fountains also use water (but not for drinking).

Example: Why would I buy a bottle of water from the vending machine when I could just fill up my water bottle for free from the water fountain?

Where does water fountain come from?

The first records of the term water fountain in reference to a drinking fountain come from around the 1700s.

In the U.S., the terms water fountain and drinking fountain are both commonly used. In a few areas, though, including Wisconsin and parts of New England, people use the regional term bubbler to refer to a water fountain.

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What are some synonyms for water fountain?

• drinking fountain
• bubbler

What are some words that share a root or word element with water fountain? 

 

• water cooler
• water
• fountain

What are some words that often get used in discussing water fountain?

• drinking water
• drink
• public
• park
• school

How is water fountain used in real life?

Water fountains are commonly found in public places, especially large office buildings, schools, and parks.

How tall people have to drink from the water fountain. pic.twitter.com/khXzFo6YJ2

— Brianne Hrusovsky (@MrsHrusovsky) March 11, 2015

Today we installed a water fountain at Chelmsford station to help cut the use of plastic bottles https://t.co/cQO4t6JQqm https://t.co/sSdbhgYTZ3

— Greater Anglia News (@GreaterAngliaPR) May 30, 2018

Please Don't Let Your Dog Drink From The Water Fountainhttp://t.co/KQWkJv9NJv pic.twitter.com/Hmvya8GTqQ

— Gothamist (@Gothamist) October 14, 2014

 

 

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Is water fountain used correctly in the following sentence? 

The kids love to go swimming in the water fountain.