Other forms: hydrants
A hydrant is the street pipe firefighters connect their hoses to. A fire hydrant, park across a hydrant, open the hydrant.
In America hydrants stand above ground and are painted, and parking in front of one is an offence everybody has seen enforced in films. In Britain most are under a small metal cover in the pavement, marked by a yellow H sign on a post giving the pipe size and the distance to the hydrant. Note that a hydrant is fed from the mains and so has water pressure without a pump.
1nounhydrantThe street pipe firefighters connect hoses to.
“Firefighters connected their hose to the hydrant on the corner.”
synonyms: fire hydrant
hydrant is a water outlet.
Also accepted in games: fire hydrant
The word was coined in nineteenth-century America from Greek hydor, water — the same root as hydrogen, hydraulic and hydrate. It was built to name a new object rather than inherited.
Middle English
ampte
English
ant
English, today
hydrant
Built from
An irregular formation: hydr + ant, originally US English. by surface analysis, hydrate + -ant. ant comes from Middle English ampte. From Middle English ampte, amte, amete, amote, ante, emete, emot, emotte, empt, empte, from Old English ǣmete, ǣmette, ǣmytte, ǣmætte (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic āmaitijā (“ant”), of unknown, but probably from Proto-Germanic ē- (“off, away”) + maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European meh₂y- (“to cut”). See also emmet. 2
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