cleaner

A2
Pronunciation
/ˈkliː.nə/
/ˈkli.nɚ/
Noun
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.

2 Definition

A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.

3 Definition

A substance used for cleaning, a cleaning agent.

4 Definition

(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.)

Example Sentences
  • I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.
Adjective
11 definition(s)
1 Definition

(heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.

2 Definition

(heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.

3 Definition

Smooth, exact, and performed well

Example Sentences
  • I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.  a clean leap over a fence
4 Definition

Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")

5 Definition

Cool or neat.

Example Sentences
  • Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
6 Definition

(health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Example Sentences
  • I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
7 Definition

That does not damage the environment.

Example Sentences
  • clean energy;  clean coal
8 Definition

Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.

Example Sentences
  • clean land;  clean timber
9 Definition

Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

10 Definition

Well-proportioned; shapely.

Example Sentences
  • clean limbs
11 Definition

(of a route) Ascended without falling.