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Sewer vs Sewerage - What's the difference?

sewer | sewerage |

As nouns the difference between sewer and sewerage

is that sewer is a pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage while sewerage is a sewer system.

sewer

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(wikipedia sewer) (en noun)
  • A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= It's a gas , passage=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 2

    From (etyl) asseour, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc.
  • * 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
    • While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer , holding his white rod of office.
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 287:
    • His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer , or waiter.

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who sews.
  • A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk.
    • the apple-leaf sewer , Phoxopteris nubeculana
    Synonyms
    * (one who sews) sempster/sempstress , tailor

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies

    sewerage

    English

    Noun

  • A sewer system.

    • Quotations

    * 2010, India Today 5 Apr 17 *: About 3.6 billion tonnes of untreated sewerage flows daily into the Yamuna, which supplies over 60 percent of Delhi's water.