blower

1. 1.

   a device that produces a current of air

   Broaderdevice

   Narrowerbellowshand blower
2. 2.

   a fan run by an electric motor

   Synonymselectric fan

   Broaderfan

   Partselectric motorfan bladehub
3. 3.

   large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals

   Synonymscetaceancetacean mammal

   Broaderaquatic mammal

   Narrowerwhale

   Part ofCetaceapod

   Partsflukeblowhole

Other forms of blower

plural

blowers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blower

What does blower mean?

blower means "a device that produces a current of air". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blower?

blower has 2 syllables: blo-wer. The stress falls on "blo". In IPA it is /ˈbloʊɚ/.

What is another word for blower?

Close synonyms include electric fan, cetacean, cetacean mammal. 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 blower a common word?

blower is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with blower?

2 words rhyme with blower. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.