WATER TANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water tank mean? 

• WATER TANK (noun)
  The noun WATER TANK has 1 sense:

1. a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet

  Familiarity information: WATER TANK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER TANK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cistern; water tank

Hypernyms ("water tank" is a kind of...):

storage tank; tank (a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids)

 Context examples 

Then he plodded down the road himself, to the water tank, where half a dozen empties lay on a side-track waiting for the up freight.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)