water tower

English

A water tower.

Alternative forms

• water-tower

Noun

water tower (plural water towers)

1. A large tank of water, in an elevated position, acting as a local reservoir; water is pumped into the tank and fed by gravity to the consumers.
2. (archaic) A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.

Translations

tank of water

• Arabic: خَزَّانُ مَاء m (ḵazzānu māʔ)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水塔 (zh) (shuǐtǎ)

• Danish: vandtårn (da) n
• Dutch: watertoren (nl) m
• Esperanto: akvoturo
• Finnish: vesitorni (fi)
• French: château d’eau (fr) m
• German: Wasserturm (de) m
• Hebrew: מגדל מים (he) m (migdal maim)
• Hungarian: víztorony (hu)
• Icelandic: vatnsturn m
• Indonesian: menara air (id)
• Irish: túr uisce m
• Japanese: 給水塔 (ja) (きゅうすいとう, kyūsuitō)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: ūdenstornis m
• Macedonian: водокула f (vodokula), водна кула f (vodna kula)
• Malay: menara air
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vanntårn n, vasstårn n

  Nynorsk: vasstårn n

• Polish: wieża ciśnień (pl) f
• Portuguese: caixa d'água f, castelo d'água m, torre d'água f
• Romanian: turn de apă (ro) n, castel de apă (ro) n
• Russian: водонапо́рная ба́шня (ru) f (vodonapórnaja bášnja), водока́чка (ru) f (vodokáčka)
• Spanish: torre de agua f
• Swedish: vattentorn (sv) n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: su kulesi

Further reading

water tower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia