cleaner

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person whose job is to clean rooms, floors, or buildings.

   The cleaner comes to our office every evening.

2. 2
   noun

   A substance or device used for cleaning things.

   She bought a new bottle of window cleaner.

3. 3
   noun

   A business that washes or dry-cleans clothes.

   I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaner.

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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