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drinking water

noun

Definitions

  1. Water that is suitable or intended for ingestion by humans

    Water that is suitable or intended for ingestion by humans: potable water.

    • Near-synonym: tap water (for washing and, ideally, drinking too)
    • One day a saint, wandering in the vicinity in search of drinking water, fainted. As he regained his senses, he could hear the trickle of water running from the Pot. He drank his fill and since then the spring has never gone dry.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for drinking water. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA