wall socket

Questions about wall socket

What does wall socket mean?

wall socket means "receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices".

What is another word for wall socket?

Close synonyms include wall plug, electric outlet, electrical outlet, outlet, electric receptacle. 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 wall socket a common word?

wall socket 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.