effluent
2 synonyms for effluent, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A stream of liquid flowing out from somewhere, such as a lake.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
A stream of liquid flowing out from somewhere, such as a lake.
“The landscape was dotted with reservoirs and many many effluent streams.”
2. noun
Waste water or sewage released into a river, lake or the sea.
“One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.”
Etymology
From French effluent, from Latin effluens, effluentis; on the surface it analyses as e- plus fluent.
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