ceiling fan

English

Noun

ceiling fan (plural ceiling fans)

1. A fan fixture attached to a ceiling, sometimes with a built-in light.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 462:

     It was set too high to reflect him, it carried only a shelf of looking-glass beer and the moving blades of the ceiling-fan.

Synonyms

• overhead fan

Translations

fan fixture on a ceiling

• Catalan: ventilador del sostre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吊扇 (zh) (diàoshàn)

• Dutch: plafondventilator
• Finnish: kattotuuletin (fi)
• French: ventilateur de plafond m
• German: Deckenventilator (de) m
• Gujarati: છતપંખો (chatpaṅkho)
• Italian: ventilatore da soffitto m
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• Mongolian: таазны сэнс (taazny sens)
• Polish: wentylator sufitowy
• Portuguese: ventilador de teto m
• Romanian: ventilator de tavan
• Russian: вентиля́тор (ru) m (ventiljátor)
• Spanish: ventilador de techo m
• Swedish: takfläkt
• Turkish: pervane (tr)
• Vietnamese: quạt trần (vi)