sewer

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• Received-Pronunciation: so͞o′ə
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈs(j)uːə/
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• General-American: so͞o′ər
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• General-American: /ˈsuɚ/
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• homophone: suer
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• rhymes with -uːə(ɹ)
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• Received-Pronunciation: so͞o'ə
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• General-American: so͞oər
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• Received-Pronunciation: sō'ə
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊə/
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• US: sō'ər
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• US: /ˈsoʊɚ/
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• homophone: sower
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• rhymes with -əʊə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S UW1 ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”) or from a root *exaquāre.

From Middle English seware, seuere, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir (“find a seat for”), from Latin assidēre, present active participle of assideō (“attend to”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit”).

sew + -er

128 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بَالُوعَة (bālūʕa) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Asturian: alcantariella — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Asturian: alcantarelláu — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Azerbaijani: lağım — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Azerbaijani: kanalizasiya — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Basque: estolda — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Belarusian: сцёкавая труба́ (scjókavaja trubá) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Belarusian: каналіза́цыя (kanalizácyja) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Bulgarian: кана́л (kanál) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Catalan: claveguera — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Catalan: clavegueram — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Chinese Mandarin: 下水道 (xiàshuǐdào) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Chinese Mandarin: 滲溝 /渗沟 (shèngōu) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Chinese Mandarin: 陰溝 /阴沟 (yīngōu) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Czech: kanalizace — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Czech: stoka — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Czech: kanál — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Dutch: riool — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Dutch: afvoerpijp — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Esperanto: kloako — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Estonian: kanalisatsioon — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Finnish: viemäri — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• French: égout — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Galician: sumidoiro — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Galician: tréstiga — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Galician: ludreira — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• German: Kanalisation — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• German: Abwasserkanal — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Greek: υπόνομος (ypónomos) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Ancient Greek: γόργυρα (górgura) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Hebrew: בִּיב (biv) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Hebrew: בִּיּוּב (biyúv) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Hungarian: csatorna — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Hungarian: szennyvízcsatorna — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Hungarian: kanális — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Icelandic: frárennsli — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Icelandic: holræsi — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Icelandic: klóak — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Icelandic: lokræsi — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Indonesian: selokan — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Indonesian: got — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Irish: séarach — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Italian: fogna — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Italian: chiavica — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Italian: cloaca — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Italian: fognatura — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Japanese: 下水道 (gesuidō) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Korean: 하수도 (hasudo) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Latin: cloāca — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Macedonian: ка́нал (kánal) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Māori: paipa harihari paru — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Māori: paipa waiparakaingaki — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Norwegian Bokmål: kloakk — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kloakk — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Polish: ścieki — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Polish: kanalizacja — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Polish: rynsztok — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Portuguese: esgoto — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Russian: сто́чная труба́ (stóčnaja trubá) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Russian: канализацио́нная труба́ (kanalizaciónnaja trubá) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Russian: колле́ктор (kolléktor) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Russian: канализа́ция (kanalizácija) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Russian: сток (stok) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Slovak: kanál — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Slovak: stoka — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Slovak: kanalizácia — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Southern Altai: суу агары (suu agarï) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Spanish: alcantarilla — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Spanish: cloaca — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Spanish: alcantarillado — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Spanish: albañal — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Spanish: desagüe — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Spanish: albollón — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Spanish: albañar — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Swedish: kloak — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Tagalog: alkantarilya — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Tamil: சாக்கடை (cākkaṭai) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Turkish: kanalizasyon — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Turkish: lağım döşemi — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Ottoman Turkish: لغم (lağım) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Ottoman Turkish: گریز (geriz, giriz) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Ukrainian: сті́чна труба́ (stíčna trubá) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Ukrainian: каналіза́ція (kanalizácija) — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Vietnamese: cống — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Welsh: carthffos — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Welsh: ceuffos — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• West Frisian: rioel — pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
• Afrikaans: naaier — person who sews clothing
• Arabic: خَيَّاط (ḵayyāṭ) — person who sews clothing
• Belarusian: шаве́ц (šavjéc) — person who sews clothing
• Belarusian: краве́ц (kravjéc) — person who sews clothing
• Bulgarian: шива́ч (šiváč) — person who sews clothing
• Bulgarian: шива́чка (šiváčka) — person who sews clothing
• Czech: šič — person who sews clothing
• Czech: šička — person who sews clothing
• Danish: syer — person who sews clothing
• Dutch: naaier — person who sews clothing
• Dutch: naaister — person who sews clothing
• Estonian: õmbleja — person who sews clothing
• Finnish: ompelija — person who sews clothing
• French: couturier — person who sews clothing
• French: couturière — person who sews clothing
• Galician: costureiro — person who sews clothing
• Galician: costureira — person who sews clothing
• German: Näher — person who sews clothing
• German: Näherin — person who sews clothing
• Polish: szwacz — person who sews clothing
• Polish: szwaczka — person who sews clothing
• Portuguese: costureiro — person who sews clothing
• Russian: портно́й (portnój) — person who sews clothing
• Russian: портни́ха (portníxa) — person who sews clothing
• Russian: швец (švec) — person who sews clothing
• Russian: швея́ (švejá) — person who sews clothing
• Spanish: costurero — person who sews clothing
• Spanish: costurera — person who sews clothing
• Spanish: cosedor — person who sews clothing
• Spanish: cosedora — person who sews clothing
• Swedish: sömmare — person who sews clothing
• Swedish: sömmerska — person who sews clothing
• Turkish: terzi — person who sews clothing
• Turkish: dikişçi — person who sews clothing
• Ottoman Turkish: ترزی (terzi) — person who sews clothing
• Ottoman Turkish: دیكیشجی (dikişci) — person who sews clothing
• Ukrainian: швач (švač) — person who sews clothing
• Ukrainian: краве́ць (kravécʹ) — person who sews clothing
• Volapük: nägan — person who sews clothing
• Volapük: hinägan — person who sews clothing
• Volapük: jinägan — person who sews clothing