air-conditioner

1. 1.

   an appliance designed to extract humidity from the air and thereby cool it

   “we rarely turn on the air-conditioner”

   Synonymsair conditionerA/C

   Broaderappliance

Questions about air-conditioner

What does air-conditioner mean?

air-conditioner means "an appliance designed to extract humidity from the air and thereby cool it".

How many syllables are in air-conditioner?

air-conditioner has 6 syllables: a-ir--con-di-tio-ner. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for air-conditioner?

Close synonyms include air conditioner, A/C. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air-conditioner a common word?

air-conditioner is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.