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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CISTERN

From Old French cisterne, from Latin cisterna underground tank, from cista box.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CISTERN

cistern  [ˈsɪstən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CISTERN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cistern is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CISTERN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cistern

Cistern

A cistern is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Cisterns are distinguished from wells by their waterproof linings. Modern cisterns range in capacity from a few litres to thousands of cubic metres, effectively forming covered reservoirs.

Definition of cistern in the English dictionary

The definition of cistern in the dictionary is a tank for the storage of water, esp on or within the roof of a house or connected to a WC. Other definition of cistern is an underground reservoir for the storage of a liquid, esp rainwater.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CISTERN


Aston
ˈæstən
boston
ˈbɒstən
charleston
ˈtʃɑːlstən
eastern
ˈiːstən
Germiston
ˈdʒɜːmɪstən
Houston
ˈhjuːstən
Huston
ˈhjuːstən
Ilkeston
ˈɪlkɪstən
Kingston
ˈkɪŋstən
Liston
ˈlɪstən
multipiston
ˌmʌltɪˈpɪstən
penistone
ˈpenɪstən
piston
ˈpɪstən
Preston
ˈprɛstən
Princeton
ˈprɪnstən
protistan
prəʊˈtɪstən
sacristan
ˈsækrɪstən
Tristan
ˈtrɪstən
western
ˈwɛstən
Winston
ˈwɪnstən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CISTERN

cispadane
cisplatin
cispontine
cissies
cissified
cissing
cissoid
cissus
cissy
cist
cistaceous
Cistercian
cisterna
cisternae
cisternal
cistic
cistron
cistronic
cistus
cistvaen

WORDS THAT END LIKE CISTERN

astern
country and western
country-and-western
drop astern
Far Eastern
Middle Eastern
Middle Western
Midwestern
morgenstern
northeastern
northwestern
pastern
pattern
postern
southeastern
southwestern
spaghetti western
stern
testern
yestern

Synonyms and antonyms of cistern in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CISTERN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «cistern» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of cistern
basin · reservoir · sink · tank · vat

Translation of «cistern» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CISTERN

Find out the translation of cistern to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cistern from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cistern» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

水箱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cisterna
570 millions of speakers

English

cistern
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तालाब
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صهريج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

цистерна
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cisterna
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জলাধার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

citerne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tangki
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zisterne
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

水槽
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

물 탱크
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cistern
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chổ chứa nước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொட்டி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टाकी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sarnıç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cisterna
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cysterny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

цистерна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cisternă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στέρνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

put
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cistern
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sisternen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cistern

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CISTERN»

The term «cistern» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.666 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CISTERN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cistern» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cistern» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cistern

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CISTERN»

Discover the use of cistern in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cistern and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cistern Tawdry
Eckhard Gerdes's Cistern Tawdry, like Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, offers verbally explosive, energetic, hyperbolic language rich in typographic play and Futurist enunciations of words immediately losing themselves by means of ...
Eckhard Gerdes, 2003
2
Cistern Secrets
The story of the love of friends who form familial ties crossing over gender, race, and age.
Jan Jansen, 2007
3
The Cistern, Poems
THE. CISTERN. The bitter melons, ripened, dangled Like flames above the water — Fetid black water where Looking in we saw only clouds, leaf droves drifting Like clouds. Slowly Vien Lowered his cupped hands, came up With two gleaming  ...
Tien Tran, 2013
4
The Man in the Cistern
You must allow me to give you refreshment.” He gestured to one of the flat stones at the high place where they could sit in the shade, then went over to the cistern and drew some water with the bucket beside it. Inside, balanced precariously on  ...
Richard Abbott
5
Drinking from Own Cistern: Customary Institutions and Their ...
Increasing human population, economic development and climatic changes in Sub-Saharan Africa have caused water scarcity, hence an urgent need for institutional arrangements that will lead to sustainable water management.
Leticia Kuchibanda Nkonya, 2006
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There’s A Hippo In My Cistern: One Man’s Misadventures on ...
The hilarious true-life tale of one man's journey from self-confessed planet-killing lad to eco-friendly, green-crusader Dad set against the backdrop of Cool Britannia, Blair's Britain and the rise of the green movement.
Pete May, 2008
7
Cerebrospinal Fluid Collections
C. Arachnoid cysts of the quadrigeminal cistern arise infratentorially, in the posterior incisural space.2" They are rare lesions that mainly affect infants and young children."0' Only 53 cases have been reported in the literature.21 -*-* They  ...
Howard H. Kaufman, 1997
8
Plumbing: A Practical Guide for Level 2
Cisterns storing water for domestic purposes 1 Every storage cistern for water supplied for domestic purposes, shall: (a) be installed in a place or position which will prevent the entry into that cistern of surface or ground water, foul water, ...
Arnold Masterman, Robert Boyce, 2005
9
Duvernoy's Atlas of the Human Brain Stem and Cerebellum: ...
adhesio interthalamica (interthalamic adhesion) ala cisternae ambientis (wing of ambient cistern) ala lobuli centralis (ala of central lobule) amygdala (amygdala) ansa lenticularis (ansa lenticularis) apertura lateralis ventriculi quarti (lateral ...
Thomas P. Naidich, Henri M. Duvernoy, Bradley N. Delman, 2009
10
Life in Biblical Israel
Occasionally a cistern could serve purposes other than water storage, as in the incident when Jeremiah was imprisoned in one: "So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern (bôr) of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of ...
Philip J. King, Lawrence E. Stager, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CISTERN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cistern is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Care home went months without water delivery
On April 29, 2012, Guy was found dead inside the smaller cistern on the property. There were buckets nearby as though someone had been ... «HamiltonNews, Jul 15»
2
The Ozone Belt: How St. Tammany turned health-tourism into big …
It was not the wetlands and cistern water that killed New Orleanians; it was virus-infected mosquitoes. But those vectors found ideal habitats in ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»
3
Waste not, want not
Our home was supplied by a cistern that was not too large in its holding capacity and I think had a small leak. It seemed that Howard Altman, the water man, was ... «Ripley Bee, Jul 15»
4
Boston Gay Men's Chorus Sings Its Stories Through The Middle East
... scheduled, much of it centered around popular tourist destinations such as the Basilica Cistern, the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. «WBUR, Jul 15»
5
SA pupils design eco-smart homes
What you do is have a basin on top of the cistern. When you wash your hands, the water goes into the cistern and is then used to flush the toilet ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
6
Thousands of homes now eligible for rain garden rebates
The average rebate for the installation of an approved rain garden or cistern is $4,500. Collectively, more than 600 RainWise projects are ... «RealEstateRama, Jul 15»
7
Jefferson's Rotunda in Virginia amid $58 million face-lift
A cistern, 16 feet deep, was discovered in the east courtyard. The signatures of workers who built it in 1853 were also found, and they were ... «Waterbury Republican American, Jul 15»
8
Where to drain all that rain
... allow us to capture the excess water from gutters and downspouts, send it through a pre-filter and store it in an underground cistern. «Greenhouse Management & Production, Jul 15»
9
Gilman Gardens is hosting a beer garden and bake sale fundraiser …
Funds raised will help the gardeners at Gilman Gardens buy a water cistern – why is this important? Unlike official City of Seattle P-Patches, ... «Queen Anne View, Jul 15»
10
Tibaldo: Living in the green planet and doing our share to conserve it
Although it is not common to most Filipino household designs, a cistern or underground rainwater depot can actually be considered at this time. «Sun.Star, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cistern [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cistern>. Apr 2024 ».
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