BOTTLED WATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bottled water mean? 

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

1. drinking water (often spring water) that is put into bottles and offered for sale

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTTLED WATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drinking water (often spring water) that is put into bottles and offered for sale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

drinking water (water suitable for drinking)

 Context examples 

Using DNA samples collected over 48 hours following a 2014 toxic bloom in Lake Erie that left Toledo-area residents drinking bottled water, the scientists looked at what genes were active at different times of the day or night.

(Research reveals harmful algal blooms' daily cycles, National Science Foundation)