kerosene
Meaning of kerosene
noun
a light fuel oil obtained by distilling petroleum, used especially in jet engines and domestic heating boilers; paraffin oil.
mid 19th century: from Greek kēros ‘wax’ (because the solid form of paraffin is like wax) + -ene.
Information about kerosene
- It is a name.
- The plural form of kerosene is: kerosenes.
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Hyphenation of kerosene
kerosene
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- kerosene is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
kerosene synonyms
Meaning kerosine:
Translation of kerosene
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