gasolene

1. 1.

   a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines

   Synonymsgasolinegaspetrol

   Broaderfuelhydrocarbon

   Narrowerleaded gasolinenapalmunleaded gasoline

Other forms of gasolene

plural

gasolenes·

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 gasolene

What does gasolene mean?

gasolene means "a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines".

How many syllables are in gasolene?

gasolene has 3 syllables: ga-so-lene. The stress falls on "ga".

What is another word for gasolene?

Close synonyms include gasoline, gas, petrol. 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 gasolene a common word?

gasolene 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.