cooler

1. 1.

   a refrigerator for cooling liquids

   Synonymsice chest

   Broaderrefrigerator
2. 2.

   an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice

   Broaderbeverage
3. 3.

   a cell for violent prisoners

   Synonymstank

   Broadercell

Other forms of cooler

plural

coolers·

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 cooler

What does cooler mean?

cooler means "a refrigerator for cooling liquids". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cooler?

cooler has 2 syllables: coo-ler. The stress falls on "coo". In IPA it is /ˈkulɚ/.

What is another word for cooler?

Close synonyms include ice chest, tank. 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 cooler a common word?

cooler is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.