sulphur oxide

1. 1.

   any of several oxides of sulphur

   Synonymssulfur oxide

   Broaderoxide

Questions about sulphur oxide

What does sulphur oxide mean?

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

What is another word for sulphur oxide?

Close synonyms include sulfur 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 sulphur oxide a common word?

sulphur 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.