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water drinkers

water drinkers is the plural of water drinker.

Meaning of water drinker

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
  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.

Questions about water drinkers

What is water drinkers the plural of?
Water drinkers is the plural of water drinker.

Words near water drinkers in the dictionary

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