cleaner
A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windowsA person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
» This vacuum cleaner makes a lot of noise.
Dieser Staubsauger macht viel Lärm.
Этот пылесос делает много шума.
Этот пылесос очень шумит.
Цей пилосос сильно шумить.
Meaning
5 sensesA person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
someone whose occupation is cleaning
A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
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
Reiniger
очисти́тельočistítelʹ
a preparation used in cleaning something
(in the plural)A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business).
I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.
(idiomatic, informal)A fixer; a person who disposes of bodies and evidence.
Reinigungskraft, Gebäudereiniger, Gebäudereinigerin
убо́рщикubórščik, убо́рщицаubórščica
прибира́льникprybyrálʹnyk, прибира́льницяprybyrálʹnycja
Examples
201 sentencesThis vacuum cleaner makes a lot of noise.
Цей пилосос сильно шумить.
ruЭтот пылесос делает много шума.
deDieser Staubsauger macht viel Lärm.
Cats hate vacuum cleaners.
Коти ненавидять пилососи.
ruКошки ненавидят пылесосы.
deKatzen hassen Staubsauger.
May I use the vacuum cleaner?
ruМожно мне воспользоваться пылесосом?
deDarf ich den Staubsauger benutzen?
Tom got taken to the cleaners.
How old is this vacuum cleaner?
ruСколько лет этому пылесосу?
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English clener, clenere, equivalent to clean + -er (agent noun suffiInherited from Middle English clener, clenere, equivalent to clean + -er (agent noun suffix).
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Forms
plural: cleanersSynonyms
5 synonyms- the operator of dry-cleaning establishment:dry cleaner
- a preparation used in cleaning something:cleansing agentcleanser
Word family
24 related wordsCollocations
4 patterns- vacuum cleaner
- cleaner than mine
- is cleaner than
- to the cleaners