tumble drier

1. 1.

   a clothes dryer that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air

   Synonymstumble-dryer

   Broaderclothes dryer

Questions about tumble drier

What does tumble drier mean?

tumble drier means "a clothes dryer that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air".

What is another word for tumble drier?

Close synonyms include tumble-dryer. 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 tumble drier a common word?

tumble drier 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.