air conditioner

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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for air conditioner?

Close synonyms include A/C, air-conditioner, air conditioning. 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 "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.