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burner

noun · 16 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːnə/
  • General-American: /ˈbɝnɚ/
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
  • CMU ARPABET: B ER1 N ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.

An element on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop that generates localized heat for cooking.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: eye, ring

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.

A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.

A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.

A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Ellipsis of burner account.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

An elaborate piece of graffiti.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

A handgun.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

A participant in the Burning Man festival.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a diesel engine is an oil burner

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: apparatus, setup

Narrower terms: blowtorch, torch, blowlamp, gas bracket, gas burner, gas jet

16

noun

Meaning 16

the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the electric range had one large burner and three smaller one

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: heating element

History

Etymology

From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).

Across languages

Translations

103 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: polttaja — someone or something that burns
  • Finnish: poltin — someone or something that burns
  • German: Brenner — someone or something that burns
  • Hungarian: égő — someone or something that burns
  • Hungarian: égető — someone or something that burns
  • Latin: cremator — someone or something that burns
  • Portuguese: queimador — someone or something that burns
  • Spanish: quemador — someone or something that burns
  • Welsh: llosgydd — someone or something that burns
  • Welsh: llosgwr — someone or something that burns
  • Bulgarian: горелка (gorelka) — element on a kitchen stove
  • Chinese Mandarin: 燃燒器 /燃烧器 (ránshāoqì) — element on a kitchen stove
  • Chinese Mandarin: 煤氣灶 /煤气灶 (gas burner) — element on a kitchen stove
  • Finnish: keittolevy — element on a kitchen stove
  • Finnish: kaasupoltin — element on a kitchen stove
  • Finnish: poltin — element on a kitchen stove
  • French: feu — element on a kitchen stove
  • French: brûleur — element on a kitchen stove
  • Galician: queimador — element on a kitchen stove
  • German: Kochplatte — element on a kitchen stove
  • German: Herdplatte — element on a kitchen stove
  • German: Heizplatte — element on a kitchen stove
  • German: Heizspirale — element on a kitchen stove
  • German: Flamme — element on a kitchen stove
  • German: Kochfeld — element on a kitchen stove
  • Greek: μάτι (máti) — element on a kitchen stove
  • Hawaiian: pā kapuahi — element on a kitchen stove
  • Hungarian: gázrózsa — element on a kitchen stove
  • Hungarian: gázégő — element on a kitchen stove
  • Hungarian: rózsa — element on a kitchen stove
  • Hungarian: égő — element on a kitchen stove
  • Hungarian: láng — element on a kitchen stove
  • Italian: fuoco — element on a kitchen stove
  • Italian: fornello — element on a kitchen stove
  • Japanese: バーナー (bānā) — element on a kitchen stove
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kokeplate — element on a kitchen stove
  • Plautdietsch: Brenna — element on a kitchen stove
  • Polish: palnik — element on a kitchen stove
  • Portuguese: boca — element on a kitchen stove
  • Russian: горе́лка (gorélka) — element on a kitchen stove
  • Russian: конфо́рка (konfórka) — element on a kitchen stove
  • Scottish Gaelic: cearcall — element on a kitchen stove
  • Spanish: fogón — element on a kitchen stove
  • Spanish: fuego — element on a kitchen stove
  • Spanish: quemador — element on a kitchen stove
  • Spanish: hornalla — element on a kitchen stove
  • Spanish: hornilla — element on a kitchen stove
  • Spanish: hornillo — element on a kitchen stove
  • Turkish: sıcak plaka — element on a kitchen stove
  • Turkish: ocak gözü — element on a kitchen stove
  • Bulgarian: горелка (gorelka) — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • Finnish: poltin — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • German: Brenner — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • German: Bunsenbrenner — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • Hungarian: Bunsen-égő — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • Italian: becco di Bunsen — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • Italian: bruciatore — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • Malay: penunu Bunsen — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • Portuguese: bico de Bunsen — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • Portuguese: queimador — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • Portuguese: maçarico — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • Spanish: quemador — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • Welsh: llosgydd — device that generates localized heat for experiments
  • Bulgarian: горелка (gorelka) — device that burns fuel
  • Finnish: poltin — device that burns fuel
  • German: Gasbrenner — device that burns fuel
  • German: Brenner — device that burns fuel
  • Malay: pembakar — device that burns fuel
  • Māori: hatete — device that burns fuel
  • Welsh: llosgwr — device that burns fuel
  • Portuguese: maçarico — a hot-air balloon's propulsion system
  • Portuguese: queimador — a hot-air balloon's propulsion system
  • Spanish: quemador — a hot-air balloon's propulsion system
  • Finnish: poltin — device for burning refuse
  • German: Verbrennungsofen — device for burning refuse
  • Italian: inceneritore — device for burning refuse
  • Malay: penunu — device for burning refuse
  • Spanish: incinerador — device for burning refuse
  • Dutch: brander — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Faroese: brennari — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Faroese: fløgubrennari — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Finnish: poltin — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Finnish: CD-poltin — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • French: graveur — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • German: Brenner — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • German: CD-Brenner — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Hungarian: CD-író — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Indonesian: pembakar — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Indonesian: perekam — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Italian: masterizzatore — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Malay: pembakar — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Malay: perakam — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Polish: nagrywarka — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Portuguese: gravador de CD — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Russian: механи́зм для за́писи CD (mexanízm dlja zápisi CD) — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Serbo-Croatian: snimač — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Serbo-Croatian: pisač — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Slovene: zapisovalnik — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Spanish: grabador de CD — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Spanish: quemador — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Swedish: brännare — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Tamil: அடுப்பு (aṭuppu) — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
  • Tamil: குறுந்தகடெழுதி (kuṟuntakaṭeḻuti) — computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
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