Other forms: geysers
A geyser is a natural fountain that blasts hot water from the ground. Watch the geyser, the geyser erupted, a geyser field.
It needs a narrow plumbing system that traps water under pressure until it flashes to steam, and only a handful of places on earth have the right rock and heat. In British English a geyser is also a gas water heater, and the two are said differently.
1noungeyserA natural fountain that blasts hot water from the ground.
“Crowds gathered to watch the geyser shoot a column of steam and water into the air.”
geyser is a spring.
From Geysir, the name of a particular hot spring in Iceland, from geysa, to gush.
Icelandic
w:Geysir
English, today
geyser
Built from
Borrowed from Icelandic w:Geysir, from geysa. From Icelandic Geysir (“Gusher”), the Icelandic - name of a particular hot spring in Iceland (see Wikipedia), from the verb geysa (“to gush”), from Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), which is mentioned in English as early as the 1760s in The Annual Register, as “Geyser, a wonderful spring in the valley of Haukadal”. a doublet of gusher
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA