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pump room

pump room noun: a room housing a pump, especially a room or structure at a spa where mineral water is drawn from a spring and consumed, formerly often serving as a venue for polite socializing and conversation.

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Noun

pump room (plural pump rooms)

  1. (capitalized, sometimes) A room housing a pump, especially a room or structure at a spa where mineral water is drawn from a spring and consumed, formerly often serving as a venue for polite socializing and conversation.
    • Among those who frequented the pump-room, was an old officer, whose temper, naturally impatient, was, by repeated attacks of the gout, which had almost deprived him of the use of his limbs, sublimated into a remarkable degree of virulence and perverseness […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 75, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
    • The Great Pump Room is a spacious saloon, ornamented with Corinthian pillars, and a music-gallery, and a Tompion clock, and a statue of Nash, and a golden inscription, to which all the water-drinkers should attend, for it appeals to them in the cause of a deserving charity.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 36, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC

pump room meaning in Tamil

pump room in Tamil

நீர்ப்பொறி அறை

Forms of pump room

pluralpump rooms
alternative formpumproom
alternative formpump-room

Questions about pump room

What does pump room mean?
Pump room means a room housing a pump, especially a room or structure at a spa where mineral water is drawn from a spring and consumed, formerly often serving as a venue for polite socializing and conversation.
What is pump room in Tamil?
Pump room in Tamil is நீர்ப்பொறி அறை. See Pump room meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pump room?
Pump room is a noun.
What is the plural of pump room?
The plural of pump room is pump rooms.

Words near pump room in the dictionary

  1. pump one's fists
  2. pump organ
  3. pump out
  4. pump pic
  5. pump pics
  6. pump room
  7. pump rooms
  8. pump someone's fist
  9. pump someone's tires
  10. pump trolley
  11. pump trolleys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pump room (page history and authors); pump room (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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