waterworks.
The water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place, including reservoirs, pipes, and pumps.
Meaning & usage
The water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place, including reservoirs, pipes, and pumps.
Any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system.
She is employed by a waterworks at the outskirts of the city.
Often in the form turn on the waterworks: crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional.
She turned on the waterworks when we told her the old man was dead, but she was asking questions about the will soon enough.
Rain.
The genitourinary system.
A hydraulic apparatus by which a supply of water is furnished for ornamental purposes; also, an ornamental fountain or waterfall.
Engineering works relating to the conveyance and flow of fluids (principally water), such as the collection and distribution of water, drainage, irrigation, etc.
Where this word comes from
From water + works (“machine, mechanism; factory or factories”).
plural of waterwork
Where this word comes from
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.