cistern – English noun declension

English noun forms of cistern

Noun: cistern
Singularcistern
Pluralcisterns

Sample Sentences

  • For cistern valves, they are well adapted—opening the full area upon the least descent of the ball, and are not liable to be set fast. [1847, editorial staff, “Improvement in Water Taps, Cister Valves, &c. ”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68:]
  • 1913, A.C. Cotter, Catholic Encyclopedia, "Wells in Scripture",
  • Their extreme necessity is attested by the countless number of old, unused cisterns with which the Holy Land is literally honeycombed.
  • On a broad ledge near the top, we found a stone cabin. Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces. [1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 211:]
  • Cisterns (bôr, bō'r), mentioned frequently in the Bible, are artificial reservoirs, usually cut into bedrock, for collecting and conserving rain runoff from roofs and courtyards. [2001, Philip J. King, Lawrence E. Stager, chapter 3, in Life in Biblical Israel, →ISBN, page 126:]
  • It is possible to connect your tank to your toilet cistern and/or garden, so that even if the water is not drinkable it still can be used productively to make major water savings. [2003, Allan Windust, chapter 9, in Waterwise House & Garden: a Guide for Sustainable Living, →ISBN, page 36:]
  • By next winter he was spending every evening poring over the work of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné on the French Reformation by the light of a little oil lamp, with a tiny cistern the size of an orange and no chimney[.] [1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 22:]

Etymology

From Middle English cisterne, from Old French cisterne (Modern French citerne) from Latin cisterna, from cista (“box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”). Doublet of cisterna. See: Middle English Nouns 'cisterne', Latin Nouns 'cisterna', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κίστη'.

Verbs referencing "cistern"

Irish Nouns sistéal.