drinking fountain

English

Two metal drinking fountains

Noun

drinking fountain (plural drinking fountains)

1. (Upper Midwestern US, Western US) A device in a public place that provides water to drink.

Synonyms

• water fountain
• bubbler (dialectal)

Translations

device that is used to provide water to drink

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飲水機／饮水机 (zh) (yǐnshuǐjī), 飲水臺／饮水台 (yǐnshuǐtái)

• Dutch: drinkfontein (nl)
• Esperanto: trinkfontano
• Finnish: juoma-allas
• French: fontaine à boire
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Trinkbrunnen m
• Hebrew: ברזייה / בִּרְזִיָּה f (birziyá)
• Hungarian: ivókút (hu)
• Italian: fontanella (it)
• Japanese: 水飲み場 (みずのみば, mizu-nomiba)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: tó háálínígi
• Portuguese: bebedouro (pt)
• Romanian: cișmea (ro)
• Spanish: fuente de beber, bebedero (es)
• Swedish: dricksfontän (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: འཐུང་ཡག་འཐོར་ཆུ ('thung yag 'thor chu)
• Turkish: su sebili

References

• Map of “bubbler, drinking fountain, water fountain” usage in the United States, Harvard Dialect Survey, Bert Vaux

Further reading

• drinking fountain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia