Cesspool

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A covered hole or pit for receiving drainage or sewage, as from a house.
  • n. A filthy, disgusting, or morally corrupt place.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An underground pit where sewage is held.
  • n. A filthy place.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A sunk chamber, cistern, or well in a drain or privy, to receive the sediment or filth.
  • n. Figuratively, any foul or fetid receptacle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cistern   
    Variant
    sesspool   
    Same Context
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