cesspool

n.

1. A covered hole or pit for receiving drainage or sewage, as from a house.
2. A filthy, disgusting, or morally corrupt place.

[Perhaps alteration (influenced by POOL¹) of obsolete cesperalle, drainpipe, from Middle English suspiral, vent, from Old French sospirail, breathing hole, from souspirer, to breathe, from Latin suspīrāre, to sigh. See suspire.]

noun

A place known for its great filth or corruption: cesspit, pit, sink. Slang armpit. See clean/dirty, right/wrong.

1. A lined and covered excavation in the ground which receives the discharge of domestic sewage or other organic wastes from a drainage system, so designed as to retain the organic matter and solids, but permitting the liquids to seep through the bottom and sides; also called a leaching cesspool or pervious cesspool.
2. (Brit.) A wooden box, usually lead-lined, constructed in a roof or gutter, to collect rainwater, which then passes to a downpipe.

cesspool

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
  Synonyms: cesspit, sink, sump

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - sivebrønd, kloak

Nederlands (Dutch)
beerput, poel van verderf/ellende etc.

Français (French)
n. - fosse d'aisances, (fig) cloaque

Deutsch (German)
n. - Senkgrube, Sumpf

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βόθρος, (μτφ.) βρομότοπος

Italiano (Italian)
pozzo nero

Português (Portuguese)
n. - esgoto (m) sanitário, fossa (f)

Русский (Russian)
выгребная яма, скопище

Español (Spanish)
n. - pozo negro, sentina

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - avloppsbrunn, dypöl (bildl.)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
污水坑, 化粪池

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 污水坑, 化糞池

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 오수구덩이, 불결한 장소

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 汚水だめ, 不潔な場所

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بالوعه, بلاليع, اردبه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בור שופכין, מרכז של שחיתות, קיפוח וכו'‬

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