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fire hydrant

fire hydrant noun: a device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main supply, consisting of a barrel, connections for hose and a valve assembly.

fire hydrant: a device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main supply, consisting of a barrel,...
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Noun

fire hydrant (plural fire hydrants)

  1. A device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main supply, consisting of a barrel, connections for hose and a valve assembly.

fire hydrant meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Arabic and Malay

fire hydrant in Tamil

தீயணைப்புக் குழாய் முனை

fire hydrant in Tagalog

a device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main
boka-insendiyo, bokaysendiyo

fire hydrant in Arabic

a device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main
صُنْبُور حَرِيق ṣunbūr ḥarīq, صُنْبُور اِطْفَاء حَرِيق ṣunbūr iṭfāʔ ḥarīq

fire hydrant in Malay

a device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main
pili bomba
More languagesFewer languages
fire hydrant in Indonesian
hidran
fire hydrant in Thai
หัวดับเพลิง hǔua-dàp-pləəng
fire hydrant in Vietnamese
trụ cứu hỏa, trụ chữa cháy

Forms of fire hydrant

pluralfire hydrants

Words formed from fire hydrant

Questions about fire hydrant

What does fire hydrant mean?
Fire hydrant means a device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main supply, consisting of a barrel, connections for hose and a valve assembly.
What is fire hydrant in Tamil?
Fire hydrant in Tamil is தீயணைப்புக் குழாய் முனை. See Fire hydrant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fire hydrant?
Fire hydrant is a noun.
What is the plural of fire hydrant?
The plural of fire hydrant is fire hydrants.

Words near fire hydrant in the dictionary

  1. fire hazards
  2. fire hose
  3. fire hoses
  4. fire house
  5. fire houses
  6. fire hydrant
  7. fire hydrants
  8. fire ice
  9. fire in one's belly
  10. fire in the belly
  11. fire in the hole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fire hydrant (page history and authors); fire hydrant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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