CESSPOOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cesspool mean? 

• CESSPOOL (noun)
  The noun CESSPOOL has 1 sense:

1. a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

  Familiarity information: CESSPOOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CESSPOOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cesspit; cesspool; sink; sump

Hypernyms ("cesspool" is a kind of...):

cistern (an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater)

 Context examples 

To hear that great and noble man's name upon your lips is like finding a dew-drop in a cesspool. You are disgusting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud-dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment—

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)