Usually means: Underground system for wastewater disposal.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word sewer:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sewer: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sewer, sewer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sewer, sewer, sewer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sewer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sewer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sewer, sewer: Wordnik
  7. sewer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sewer: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. sewer: Wiktionary
  10. sewer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sewer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sewer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sewer: Dictionary.com
  14. sewer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sewer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sewer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sewer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sewer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sewer: Rhymezone
  20. sewer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sewer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sewer: Free Dictionary
  23. sewer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sewer: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. sewer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Sewer (disambiguation), Sewer: Legal dictionary
  4. Sewer (disambiguation), sewer: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sewer (disambiguation), sewer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sewer, sewer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Sewer: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. sewer: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See sewering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
verb:  (transitive) To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.
noun:  (historical) An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.
noun:  One who sews.
noun:  A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.

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