reservoir
pronunciation
How to pronounce reservoir in British English:
UK [ˈrezəvwɑː(r)]
How to pronounce reservoir in American English:
US [ˈrezərvwɑːr]
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- Noun:
- a large or extra supply of something
- lake used to store water for community use
- tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
Word Origin
- reservoir (n.)
- 1680s, "a place where something tends to collect," originally figurative, from French réservoir "storehouse," from Old French reserver "to reserve" (see reserve (n.)). Specific meaning "artificial basin to collect and store a large body of water" is from 1705.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Pollution , silt and landslides have plagued the reservoir area .
- 2. Reservoir water sometimes falls too low to turn the turbines .
- 3. That is why they built a reservoir on the tereblya .
- 4. Today the lake is a reservoir and popular salmon fishing location .
- 5. Boats rest on the bottom of a dried reservoir in minqin county .