cleaner
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkli.nɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkliː.nə/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -iːnə(ɹ)
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Middle English clener, clenere, equivalent to clean + -er (“agent noun”).
Noun[edit]
cleaner (plural cleaners)
- A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.
- A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
- A substance used for cleaning, a cleaning agent.
- (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.)
- I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- (sense 3) cleanser
- take to the cleaners
Translations[edit]
person who cleans
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device that cleans
substance used for cleaning
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professional laundry
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Etymology 2[edit]
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[edit]
cleaner
- comparative form of clean: more clean
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