sewage B2 Topic:Environment & Ecology US /ˈsuɪdʒ/ UK /ˈsuːɪdʒ/ See IPA manual Freq #16416 Meanings 1 noun wastewater and solid waste carried away from homes and other buildings through sewers Untreated sewage leaked into the river after the pipe broke. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · wastewater and solid waste... wastewatersewerage ↔ Opposites clean waterpotable water Word family Related forms sewereffluentsludge Common collocations sewage disposal Noun + noun Etymology Formed in the nineteenth century from sewer or sew, an older verb meaning ‘to drain,’ plus -age. It first referred broadly to material carried through drains and sewers. Topics Environment & Ecology External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # sewage **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈsuɪdʒ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈsuːɪdʒ/ **Frequency rank:** 16416 ## Meanings 1. wastewater and solid waste carried away from homes and other buildings through sewers ## Examples - Untreated sewage leaked into the river after the pipe broke. ## Synonyms - wastewater - sewerage ## Antonyms - clean water - potable water ## Related Forms - sewer - effluent - sludge ## Etymology Formed in the nineteenth century from sewer or sew, an older verb meaning ‘to drain,’ plus -age. It first referred broadly to material carried through drains and sewers. ## Topics - Environment & Ecology markdown