A person who drinks water, esp. in preference to wine or other alcoholic drinks; (sometimes) spec. a teetotaller.

A person who abstains; esp. one who abstains from eating particular foods.

In extended use: a person who abstains from alcoholic drink; spec. a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a friendly society of…

A drinker of water.

in same sense.

A water-drinker; an abstainer from alcoholic drinks.

A total abstainer; a teetotaller. rare.

One who abstains (esp. one who pledges himself to abstain) from the use of any intoxicating liquor; a total abstainer.

= teetotaller, n.

Historical. A member of an American temperance society founded in 1840.

A member of the International Organization of Good Templars (originally the Independent Order of Good Templars), an organization promoting…

a female teetotaller.

(also with capital initials) = blue ribboner n.

a teetotaller.

total abstinence: spec. entire abstinence from the use of alcoholic drinks. So total abstainer; also (rare) total abstinent, total abstention.

(also with capital initials) = blue ribboner n.

Dialect and colloquial abbreviation of total abstainer (also tot). Also colloquial (originally Australian) of totalizator, n.; (more generally) a…

Short for Good Templar, n.

(also with capital initials) a person who belongs to a temperance movement, the members of which wear the blue ribbon (sense A. 3); (more…

total abstinence: spec. entire abstinence from the use of alcoholic drinks. So total abstainer; also (rare) total abstinent, total abstention.

A teetotaller. Cf. water-drinker, n. 1a. Obsolete.

a person who wears a white ribbon as a symbol of temperance; a teetotaller.

A person who or animal which does not drink; spec. a person who abstains from alcoholic drinks.

In specific uses (frequently with capital initial). In Ireland: a member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association; a teetotaller.

teetotal, a teetotaller.