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ceiling fans

ceiling fans is the plural of ceiling fan.

Meaning of ceiling fan

Noun

ceiling fan (plural ceiling fans)

  1. A fan fixture attached to a ceiling, sometimes with a built-in light.
    • 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.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 462
    Synonyms:
    overhead fan
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: someone who really likes ceilings..

Questions about ceiling fans

What is ceiling fans the plural of?
Ceiling fans is the plural of ceiling fan.

Words near ceiling fans in the dictionary

  1. ceiling bird
  2. ceiling birds
  3. ceiling effect
  4. ceiling effects
  5. ceiling fan
  6. ceiling fans
  7. ceiling function
  8. ceiling functions
  9. ceiling paper
  10. ceiling papers
  11. ceilinged

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