cleaner
/ˈkliː.nə/
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Translation
A person whose job is to clean rooms, floors, and other places.
Word origin
From the word clean plus the ending -er, meaning a person who cleans.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- clean
Grammar
Gender
Pluralcleaners
Examples
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"Cleaner" is the person whose job is to clean.
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"Cleaners" is the plural, meaning more than one cleaner.
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Here "cleaner" is the job that she does.
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