cleaner.
A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
Meaning & usage
A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
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.
A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business).
I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.
A fixer; a person who disposes of bodies and evidence.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English clener, clenere, equivalent to clean + -er (agent noun suffix).
Comparative form of clean: more clean.
Where this word comes from
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.
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