sulfur oxide

1. 1.

   any of several oxides of sulphur

   Synonymssulphur oxide

   Broaderoxide

Questions about sulfur oxide

What does sulfur oxide mean?

sulfur oxide means "any of several oxides of sulphur".

What is another word for sulfur oxide?

Close synonyms include sulphur oxide. 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 sulfur oxide a common word?

sulfur oxide 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.