gas helmet

1. 1.

   a protective mask with a filter; protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases

   Synonymsgasmaskrespirator

   Broadermask

Questions about gas helmet

What does gas helmet mean?

gas helmet means "a protective mask with a filter; protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases".

What is another word for gas helmet?

Close synonyms include gasmask, respirator. 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 gas helmet a common word?

gas helmet 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.