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reservoir

/ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ/noun3 syllables

Reservoir means: lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water.

Synonyms for reservoir4

noun, as in lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water

artificial lake, man-made lake

noun, as in anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

source

also used for reservoir

conservatory

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What does reservoir mean?4

noun

1

lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water

2

anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies“an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival”

3

a large or extra supply of something“a reservoir of talent”

4

tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Reservoir in a sentence

  • The town is supplied with water from a reservoir in the hills.CK
  • The water level in the reservoir is particularly low this year.sundown
  • The dam created the world's largest water supply reservoir at the time.CM
  • There are also several reservoirs in the area.CM
  • Algeria has vast reservoirs of water in the Sahara desert.Amastan
  • Eastern Oklahoma has a number of artificial reservoirs.Lumi
  • The lake near Waco, Texas is actually a manmade reservoir.Lumi
  • In the summertime, you can see seaplanes being filled with water from reservoirs to contain forest fires.AlanF_US

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Forms of reservoir

as a noun

plural
reservoirs