cleaner

The word “cleaner” means a person whose job is cleaning buildings, rooms, or other spaces. In plain terms, someone or something whose job is making things clean, or a shop that dry-cleans clothes.

“Cleaner” is pronounced KLEE-nuh (/ˈkli.nɚ/ in IPA).

Here is “cleaner” used in a sentence: “The office cleaner comes in every evening after everyone leaves.”

“Cleaner” is a noun.

“Cleaner” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the A2 level.

“Cleaner” has 3 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: a person whose job is cleaning buildings, rooms, or other spaces.

A cleaner is a person whose job is cleaning buildings, rooms, or spaces, a term common in British English. A janitor, more common in American English, usually does cleaning too but often has additional caretaking duties such as basic maintenance, locking up, and looking after a building.

A cleaner is a general product or device used to clean something, or a person who cleans. A cleanser usually refers specifically to a product for cleaning the skin or face, so "cleaner" is the broader household term and "cleanser" is more often cosmetic.

A cleaner can mean a person who cleans spaces or a cleaning product, while a dry cleaner, or "the cleaner's," is a shop that launders and dry-cleans clothes. When people say they are taking clothes "to the cleaner's," they mean the shop, not a person.