cleaner

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.nɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkliː.nə/
• Rhymes: -iːnə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

clean +‎ -er (“agent noun”)

Noun

cleaner (plural cleaners)

1. A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.
2. A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
3. A substance used for cleaning, a cleaning agent.
4. (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

• cleaner fish
• vacuum cleaner

Related terms

• (sense 3) cleanser
• take to the cleaners

Translations

person who cleans

• Armenian: հավաքարար (hy) (havakʿarar)
• Basque: garbitzaile (eu)
• Bulgarian: чистач m (čistač), чистачка (bg) f (čistačka)
• Catalan: netejador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清潔工 (zh), 清洁工 (zh) (qīngjiégōng)

• Czech: uklízeč m, uklízečka (cs) f
• Finnish: siivooja (fi)
• French: nettoyeur (fr) m
• Galician: limpador (gl) m
• German: Reinigungskraft f, Gebäudereiniger (building), Gebäudereinigerin f
• Hungarian: takarító, takarítónő (hu)

• Japanese: 清掃員 (seisōin)
• Norman: nettisseux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: renholder (no) m, reinholder m

  Nynorsk: reinhaldar m

• Polish: sprzątacz (pl) m, sprzątaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: limpador m
• Romanian: om de serviciu m, femeie de serviciu f
• Russian: убо́рщик (ru) m (ubórščik), убо́рщица (ru) f (ubórščica)
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-glanaidh m, f
• Serbo-Croatian: čìstāč (sh) m, čistàčica (sh) f
• Tagalog: tagalinis
• Volapük: (♂♀) klinükan, (♂) hiklinükan, (♀) jiklinükan (vo)

device that cleans

• Finnish: puhdistin; imuri (fi) (vacuum cleaner)
• French: nettoyeur (fr) m
• Hungarian: takarítógép

• Norman: nettisseux m
• Portuguese: limpador m
• Romanian: aspirator (ro) n (vacuum cleaner)

substance used for cleaning

• Finnish: puhdistusaine
• French: nettoyant (fr) m
• German: Reiniger m
• Hungarian: tisztítószer (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rengjøringsmiddel n

• Romanian: detergent (ro) m
• Russian: очисти́тель (ru) m (očistítelʹ)
• Swedish: rengöringsmedel (sv) n

professional laundry

• Finnish: pesula (fi)
• French: pressing (fr) m
• Hungarian: tisztító (hu), vegytisztító (hu)

• Portuguese: lavanderia (pt) f
• Romanian: curățătorie (ro) f

Etymology 2

clean + -er

Adjective

cleaner

1. comparative form of clean: more clean

Anagrams

• Carlene, reclean