hoover

1. 1.

   clean with a vacuum cleaner

   “vacuum the carpets”

   Synonymsvacuumvacuum-clean

   Broaderclean

Other forms of hoover

plural

hoovers·

past tense

hooverred·

present participle

hooverring·

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 hoover

What does hoover mean?

hoover means "United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hoover?

hoover has 2 syllables: hoo-ver. The stress falls on "hoo". In IPA it is /ˈhuvɚ/.

What is another word for hoover?

Close synonyms include William Hoover, William Henry Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover. 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 hoover a common word?

hoover 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.