power plant

Questions about power plant

What does power plant mean?

power plant means "an electrical generating station".

What is another word for power plant?

Close synonyms include power station, powerhouse. 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 power plant a common word?

power plant 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.