natural gas

1. 1.

   a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes

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   Broaderfossil fuel

Questions about natural gas

What does natural gas mean?

natural gas means "a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes".

What is another word for natural gas?

Close synonyms include gas. 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 natural gas a common word?

natural gas 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.