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water drinker

water drinker noun: someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler.

Noun

water drinker (plural water drinkers)

  1. Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler.
    • Could not resist Metcalfe's fine dishes and wines. Sir Joshua began to be a water-drinker.1789, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 21
    • Ben Franklin, an American and a water drinker, found his fellow workers at Watts's printing house ‘great guzzlers of beer’ around 1725.2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 326
  2. (obsolete) A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist.
  3. (historical) Someone who drinks the waters at a spa.

Forms of water drinker

pluralwater drinkers

Questions about water drinker

What does water drinker mean?
Water drinker means someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler.
What part of speech is water drinker?
Water drinker is a noun.
What is the plural of water drinker?
The plural of water drinker is water drinkers.

Words near water drinker in the dictionary

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