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cleaner

/ˈkliː.nə/US/ˈkli.nɚ/

cleaner noun: a person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows. Also the comparative form of clean.

Noun

cleaner (plural cleaners)

  1. A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
    • The cleaner worked, of course, at nights. He had to coal and light up the engine, as well as clean it, for the next day's work, which commenced with a light run to Barnham to "bring in the goods" from that station at about 6.30 a.m.1952 February, J. Pelham Maitland, “Locomotive Working on Sussex Branches Fifty Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 84
  2. A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
  3. A substance used for cleaning; especially, one retailed for that purpose and meant for use on things other than one's own body.
    • Near-synonym: cleaning fluid
  4. (in plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business).
    • I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.
  5. (idiomatic, informal) A fixer; a person who disposes of bodies and evidence.

Also used as

cleaner is also the comparative form of clean.

cleaner meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Nepali

cleaner in Hindi

person who cleans
क्लीनर klīnar, सफ़ाईकार safāīkār

cleaner in Urdu

person who cleans
کِلِینَر kilīnar

cleaner in Punjabi

ਕਲੀਨਰ

cleaner in Nepali

क्लिनर
More languagesFewer languages
cleaner in Tagalog
tagalinis
cleaner in Arabic
مُنَظِّف munaẓẓif, مُنَظِّفَة munaẓẓifa
cleaner in Thai
คนทำความสะอาด kon-tam-kwaam-sà-àat
cleaner in Vietnamese
người quét dọn nhà cửa
cleaner in Myanmar
သန့်ရှင်းရေးသမား san.hrang:re:sa.ma:

Examples of cleaner in a sentence

  • Have a look in the Acme brochure for a new vacuum cleaner.
  • The office was now large enough to need an industrial strength vacuum cleaner.
  • Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk.

All 40 example sentences with cleaner

Synonyms of cleaner

Forms of cleaner

pluralcleaners

Plural of cleaner: cleaners

Origin of cleaner

Inherited from Middle English clener, clenere, equivalent to clean + -er (agent noun suffix).

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.

Words formed from cleaner

Phrases with cleaner

Words that rhyme with cleaner

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Questions about cleaner

What does cleaner mean?
Cleaner means a person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
What is cleaner in Hindi?
Cleaner in Hindi is क्लीनर (klīnar), सफ़ाईकार (safāīkār). See Cleaner meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cleaner?
Cleaner is a noun.
How do you pronounce cleaner?
Cleaner is pronounced /ˈkliː.nə/ (UK).
What is the plural of cleaner?
The plural of cleaner is cleaners.

Words near cleaner in the dictionary

  1. cleaned someone's clock
  2. cleaned up
  3. cleaned up after
  4. cleaned up one's act
  5. cleaned up one's plate
  6. cleaner
  7. cleaner fish
  8. cleaner fishes
  9. cleaner shrimp
  10. cleaner shrimps
  11. cleaner's

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cleaner (page history and authors); cleaner (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cleaner (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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