Usually means: Water storage tanks, often underground.
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  1. cisterns: Merriam-Webster
  2. cisterns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cisterns: Vocabulary.com
  4. Cisterns, cisterns: Wordnik
  5. cisterns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cisterns: Wiktionary
  7. cisterns: Dictionary.com
  8. cisterns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Cisterns: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Cisterns: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cisterns: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cisterns: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cisterns: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Cisterns: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See cistern as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cistern)

noun:  A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
noun:  In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
noun:  A shallow, typically oval, vessel made of porcelain, pottery, or glass.
noun:  The receptacle that holds the fuel in an oil lamp.
noun:  (Biology) A cisterna.
noun:  The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine.
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