Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Liquid and solid waste carried off in sewers or drains.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The matter which passes through sewers; excreted and waste matter, solid and liquid, carried off in sewers and drains. Also sewerage.
- n. Same as sewerage, 1.
- n. Synonyms See sewerage.
- To fertilize by the application of sewage.
- To furnish with sewers; drain with sewers; sewer.
Wiktionary
- n. A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
- n. sewerage.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers.
- n. Sewerage, 2.
WordNet 3.0
- n. waste matter carried away in sewers or drains
Etymologies
- Perhaps sew, sewer (from Middle English, short for Anglo-Norman sewere; see sewer1) + -age.
Examples
“The term sewage many years ago was rightly applied to the excremental refuse of towns, but it is a most difficult matter to define the liquid that teems into our rivers under the name of sewage to-day; in most towns "chemical refuse" is the best name for the complex fluid running from the sewers.”
“The city forms its poisons which we call sewage and the body its poisons, which we call excreta (or carbonic acid, urea, uric acid, faeces, etc.)”
“All the wiring for power, water and sewage is in place.”
“Gas from sewage is just one part of a bigger project, which will see us using brewery and food waste and farm slurry to generate gas to heat homes.”
The Guardian: Human waste turned into renewable gas to power homes
“I mean the evil librarians and supermodel baggin sewage department are gold.”
“High rises waste tremendous amounts of energy and probably strain sewage and other facilities.”
“Unfortunately very little sewage is treated here in Xalapa, but a very large plant was inaugurated about 3 months ago.”
“Imagine the inspiration when the sewage is running.”
“Many people think that waste from mining, nuclear power, and even sewage is out of sight, out of mind.”
The Huffington Post: Manure, Nuclear Waste, Sewage, And Coal Ash: Scary Toxic Lagoons (PHOTOS)
“Many people think that waste from mining, nuclear power, and even sewage is out of sight, out of ...”
The Huffington Post: Manure, Nuclear Waste, Sewage, And Coal Ash: Scary Toxic Lagoons (PHOTOS)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sewage’.
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 105 more...
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That STINKS!
Words having to do with terrible smells.
odor, putrid, stank, stink, smell, horrid, foul, putrecence, awful, rotting, garbage, toilet and 14 more...
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News haikus
It rhymes! But the news of the day doesn't have to, as long as it has 17 syllables.
ill will, stimulus, citizen, serval, undersea, sewage, aerosolization, lunch, strike, torch, fraternity, molecular and 2 more...
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sewerly words
words that have to do with the sewers and the stuff that goes into them can be as gross as you like but stay on the topic of pipes poop and piles of sludge animals found in there are also welcome
sewage, sewerage, sludge, feces, poop, sewers, gunk, rat, mutant ninja turtles, alligator, sanitary sewer, storm sewer and 3 more...
whichbe That which has had needlework done to it. Dec 17, 2008
asativum Welcome to Marin:
Sail. Stay. Fish. Play. Swim. Surf. Dine.
(Don't touch the water.)
-- Continued recommendation to avoid water near Marin sewage spill, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 2, 2008.
Feb 3, 2008