tumble-dryer

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstumble drier

   Broaderclothes dryer

Questions about tumble-dryer

What does tumble-dryer mean?

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

How many syllables are in tumble-dryer?

tumble-dryer has 3 syllables: tum-ble--dryer. The stress falls on "tum".

What is another word for tumble-dryer?

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

tumble-dryer 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.