steam heating

1. 1.

   a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators

   Synonymssteam heat

   Broaderheating system

Questions about steam heating

What does steam heating mean?

steam heating means "a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators".

What is another word for steam heating?

Close synonyms include steam heat. 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 steam heating a common word?

steam heating 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.