English Online Dictionary. What means cleaner? What does cleaner mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkliː.nə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkli.nɚ/
- Rhymes: -iːnə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle English clener, clenere, equivalent to clean + -er (agent noun suffix).
Noun
cleaner (plural cleaners)
- A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
- Hyponyms: housecleaner, window cleaner
- A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
- A substance used for cleaning; especially, one retailed for that purpose and meant for use on things other than one's own body.
- Synonym: cleaning agent (sometimes hypernymous)
- Hyponyms: all-purpose cleaner, glass cleaner, scouring powder, window cleaner
- Coordinate terms: soap, detergent
- Near-synonym: cleaning fluid
- (in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business). (This form is now interpreted as plural and usually spelled without an apostrophe, even in official usage, to justify the removal of the apostrophe. It was traditionally spelled cleaner's with an apostrophe because this is grammatically correct, as can be seen with forms such as go to the doctor's, which cannot be reinterpreted as plural.)
- A fixer; a person who disposes of bodies and evidence.
Derived terms
Related terms
- (sense 3) cleanser
- take to the cleaners
Translations
Etymology 2
Inherited from Middle English clener, clenner, clanner, clannere, from Old English clǣnra, clǣnre (“cleaner, purer, clearer”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainiʀō (“daintier, more delicate”), from Proto-Germanic *klainizô (“shinier, finer, more splendid”), equivalent to clean + -er.
Adjective
cleaner
- comparative form of clean: more clean
Anagrams
- Carlene, reclean
French
Etymology
From English clean + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kli.ne/
- Rhymes: -e
Verb
cleaner
- (Quebec, anglicism) to clean