Phrase guide

clothes dryer

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a dryer that dries clothes wet from washing

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: clothes drier

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dryer, drier, white goods

Narrower terms: mangle, spin dryer, spin drier, tumble-dryer, tumble drier, wringer

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُجَفِّف مَلَابِس (mujaffif malābis) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Arabic: نَشَّافة (naššāfa) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Azerbaijani: quruducu maşın — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Azerbaijani: paltarqurudan — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Catalan: assecadora — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Chinese Mandarin: 烘乾機 /烘干机 (hōnggānjī) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Chinese Mandarin: 乾衣機 /干衣机 (gānyījī) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Dutch: wasdroger — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Esperanto: sekigaŭtomato — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Esperanto: sekigilo — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Finnish: pyykinkuivain — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Finnish: pyykinkuivaaja — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Finnish: vaatekuivain — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • French: sèche-linge — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Galician: secadora — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • German: Wäschetrockner — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Hebrew: מייבש כביסה — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Hungarian: ruhaszárítógép — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Icelandic: þurrkari — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Italian: asciugatrice — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Japanese: 衣類乾燥機 (irui kansōki) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Japanese: 乾燥機 (kansōki) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនសម្ងួតខោអាវ (maasiin sɑmnguət khao ʼaaw) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Korean: 빨래 건조기 (ppallae geonjogi) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Korean: 건조기 (geonjogi) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Latin: machina siccatoria volubilis — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Persian: رختخشککن — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Polish: suszarka do ubrań — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Portuguese: secadora de roupas — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Russian: суши́льная маши́на (sušílʹnaja mašína) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Russian: суши́лка (sušílka) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Spanish: secadora — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Spanish: secarropas — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Tamil: துணி உலர்த்தி (tuṇi ulartti) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Tibetan: དུག་སློག་སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (dug slog skam yag 'phrul 'khor) — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Turkish: çamaşır kurutma makinesi — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Turkish: kurutma makinesi — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Urdu: آلہ خشکاری — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Vietnamese: máy sấy — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Welsh: sychydd — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
  • Welsh: sychwr — electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum