Meaning

15 senses
  1. One who sweeps; one whose occupation is sweeping.

    an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)

  2. One who sweeps floors or chimneys.

    Raumpfleger, Putzfrau, Putzmann

    подмета́льщикpodmetálʹščik, подмета́льщицаpodmetálʹščica, убо́рщикubórščik

  3. A detector for mines.

  4. Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.

  5. A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.

  6. A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.

  7. A batsman who plays sweep shots.

  8. A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.

  9. A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.

  10. A carpet sweeper.

  11. (US, regional)A vacuum cleaner.

  12. (Cebu, including, regional)A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Where did you put the sweeper?

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  2. Road sweepers sweep up the litter every morning.

    deDie Straßenkehrer sammeln jeden Morgen den Müll ein. — Esperantostern

  3. The street sweeper cleaned the road every morning.

    deDer Straßenfeger machte jeden Morgen die Straße sauber. — Waldelfe

  4. This sweeper is awfully loud.

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  5. Tom is a street sweeper.

    ruТом - уборщик улиц. — Selena777

    deTom ist Straßenkehrer. — Esperantostern

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
in soccer:
one who sweeps floors or chimneys:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
in soccer:
one who sweeps floors or chimneys:

Origin

From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low G

From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German swēpære, swēper (“broom for sweeping up debris”, literally “sweeper”).

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Forms

plural: sweepers
Singularsweeper
Pluralsweepers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet:carpet sweeper

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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