paraffin oil

1. 1.

   (British usage) kerosine

   Synonymsparaffin

   Broaderkerosene

Questions about paraffin oil

What does paraffin oil mean?

paraffin oil means "(British usage) kerosine".

What is another word for paraffin oil?

Close synonyms include paraffin. 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 paraffin oil a common word?

paraffin oil 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.