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water carrier

water carrier noun: a person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.

Noun

water carrier (plural water carriers)

  1. (historical, usually) A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.
  2. An arrangement of wires on which a bucket of water, raised from a well, etc., may be conveyed wherever required, as to a house.
  3. A pipe or tube that conveys water.
  4. A transportation ship that is water-based.
  5. Aquarius, or a symbol for it.
    • With the ascent of the Sumerian civilization, in which, we have seen, the figure of Aquarius as the "Water-carrier" was already accepted as a current symbol, the Ibex by no means disappeared.1965, Willy Hartner, “The Earliest History of the Constellations in the near East and the Motif of the Lion-Bull Combat”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, volume 24, number 1/2, page 11, column 1
  6. (colloquial, figuratively) A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
  7. A domestique.

Proper noun capitalized: Water Carrier

the Water Carrier

  1. The constellation and zodiacal sign Aquarius.
    • Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts...1926 November 21, “How old is the zodiac?”, in The Woodend Star, Victoria, page 4, column 6
    • No racketting around and cocktail parties for those born under the influence of the Water-carrier and the Archer.1947 November 14, Mountain District Free Press and Frentree Gully News, Tecoma, Vic., page 8, column 2

water carrier meaning in Urdu, Kannada and Gujarati

water carrier in Urdu

water carrier
ساقی sāqī

water carrier in Kannada

ಜಲವಾಹಕ

water carrier in Gujarati

a water carrier , bhisti
પખાલી pakhālī
water carrier , bhisti
ખેવૈયો khevaiyo
water carrier
ભિસ્તી bhistī

Forms of water carrier

pluralwater carriers
alternative formwater-carrier

Origin of water carrier

Calque of Latin Aquarius. Compare Afrikaans Waterdraer

Questions about water carrier

What does water carrier mean?
Water carrier means a person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.
What is water carrier in Urdu?
Water carrier in Urdu is ساقی (sāqī). See Water carrier meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is water carrier?
Water carrier can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of water carrier?
The plural of water carrier is water carriers.

Words near water carrier in the dictionary

  1. water cannon
  2. water cannons
  3. water cans
  4. water carriage
  5. water carriages
  6. water carrier
  7. water carriers
  8. water cart
  9. water carts
  10. water cavies
  11. water cavy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: water carrier (page history and authors); Water Carrier (page history and authors); ساقی (Urdu) (page history and authors); water carrier (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ખેવૈયો (Gujarati) (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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