下水道|げすいどうgesuidou[2]nakadaka (mid-high)

Common
Definitions
  1. nounsewer; sewer system; sewerage; drain
    そして汚水おすいを流ながすために地下ちかに下水道げすいどうを持もっていた。↗
    The house has pipes under the ground to carry dirty water away.
Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym下水げすいNeutralNeutral. The wastewater from homes and businesses, or drainage facilities; 「下水道」 refers specifically to the sewage system.
  • Synonym下水管げすいかんNeutralNeutral. The pipe itself that carries sewage; 「下水道」 covers the pipes plus the treatment facilities.
  • Synonym下水溝げすいこうWrittenWritten/formal prose. A ditch or channel dug in the ground to drain water; 「下水道」 is the full system of pipes, channels and treatment facilities.
  • RelatedどぶCasualColloquial. An open, often smelly gutter or ditch for dirty water, or ditches generally; 「下水道」 is the whole sewage system with treatment facilities.
  • Antonym上水道じょうすいどうWrittenWritten/formal prose. The waterworks that supply drinking water — the counterpart to 「下水道」, which handles sewage.

Use 「下水道」 for a city's sewage system. 「下水」 is the wastewater itself, 「下水管」 the pipes, 「溝」 an open roadside gutter, 「下水溝」 a drainage ditch in formal prose, and 「上水道」 the opposing water-supply system.

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Japanese definitions
  1. 下水げすいを排水はいすいし、処理しょりするための施設しせつのこと。日本にっぽんの下水道げすいどう法ほうでは、「下水げすいを排除はいじょするために設もうけられる排水はいすい管かん、排水はいすい渠きょその他たの排水はいすい施設しせつ(かんがい排水はいすい施設しせつを除のぞく。)、これに接続せつぞくして下水げすいを処理しょりするために設もうけられる処理しょり施設しせつ(屎尿しにょう浄化槽じょうかそうを除のぞく。)又またはこれらの施設しせつを補完ほかんするために設もうけられるポンプ施設しせつその他たの施設しせつの総体そうたいをいう」と定さだめられている(同法どうほう第だい2条じょう第だい2号ごう)。
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