drinking fountain
drinking fountain
Definition
drinking fountain
noun
a device for providing a jet or flow of drinking water as in a public place
drinking fountain
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- erect: Pennies were collected from the town's children to erect a drinking fountain to her memory.
- provide: Many schools provide drinking fountains, but such provision is at the discretion of the head teacher and the governing body.
- have: We certainly had a drinking fountain in our day, but I cannot remember if it was in the same location or elsewhere.
- use: Summer Soak Zone Do NOT drink water from the Soak Zone - please use the drinking fountain provided.
Adjective modifier
- Victorian: But some historians feel that the spring was probably mythical and the present monument on the site is a Victorian drinking fountain.
- ornamental: In 1925 Messrs J.A. Harper and R. Carter donated an ornamental drinking fountain near to the Dartmouth Avenue entrance.
- old: It reminds me of nothing so much as the old drinking fountain in Christchurch Park.
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