Word.ws English Dictionary

window cleaner

window cleaner noun: a person whose job is to clean windows.

window cleaner: a person whose job is to clean windows
Image: JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

window cleaner (plural window cleaners)

  1. A person whose job is to clean windows.
    • In his 20s he was a freelance window cleaner, 50p a pane, when one of his clients – a lady in Aberystwyth – asked if he would clear out a vacated property she managed.2025 September 23, Tom Lamont, “The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2025
    Synonyms:
    window washer
  2. Any of various specific formulas of cleaner, usually cleaning fluid, for glass windows; many commonly encountered ones contain ammonia, and nonammoniacal types exist for various special purposes.
    • Near-synonyms: glass cleaner (usually coinstantial), Windex (a famous brand of such cleaners)

Synonyms of window cleaner

Forms of window cleaner

pluralwindow cleaners
alternative formwindow-cleaner

Questions about window cleaner

What does window cleaner mean?
Window cleaner means a person whose job is to clean windows.
What part of speech is window cleaner?
Window cleaner is a noun.
What is the plural of window cleaner?
The plural of window cleaner is window cleaners.

Words near window cleaner in the dictionary

  1. window backs
  2. window box
  3. window boxes
  4. window card
  5. window cards
  6. window cleaner
  7. window cleaners
  8. window covering
  9. window coverings
  10. window detector
  11. window detectors

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: window cleaner (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “window cleaner.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/window_cleaner. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.