Usually means: Water storage tank, often underground.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. cistern: Merriam-Webster
  2. cistern: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cistern: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cistern: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cistern: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cistern, cistern: Wordnik
  7. cistern: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cistern: Wiktionary
  9. cistern: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cistern: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cistern: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cistern, cistern: Dictionary.com
  13. cistern: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cistern: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cistern (album), Cistern (disambiguation), Cistern (neuroanatomy), Cistern: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cistern: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cistern: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cistern: Rhymezone
  19. Cistern: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cistern: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cistern: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cistern: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cistern: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. cistern: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. cistern: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cistern: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cistern: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. cistern: Medical dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cistern: Easton Bible
  2. Cistern: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cistern: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See cisterns as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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