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cotton mill

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

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noun

Meaning 1

A building housing spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from raw cotton.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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noun

Meaning 2

a textile mill for making cotton textiles

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: textile mill

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Across languages

Translations

13 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 棉紡廠 /棉纺厂 (miánfǎngchǎng) — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • Czech: přádelna — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • Esperanto: kotonfabriko — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • German: Baumwollspinnerei — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • Greek: βαμβακοκλωστήριο (vamvakoklostírio) — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • Icelandic: baðmullarverksmiðja — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • Italian: cotonificio — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • Polish: przędzalnia — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • Portuguese: moinho de algodão — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • Russian: бумагопряди́льня (bumagoprjadílʹnja) — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • Slovene: predilnica — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • Spanish: molino de algodón — building housing spinning or weaving machinery
  • Swedish: bomullsspinneri — building housing spinning or weaving machinery