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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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