"ceiling fan" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ceiling fans [plural]
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  1. A fan fixture attached to a ceiling, sometimes with a built-in light. Synonyms: overhead fan Translations (fan fixture on a ceiling): ventilador del sostre [masculine] (Catalan), 吊扇 (diàoshàn) (Chinese Mandarin), plafondventilator (Dutch), kattotuuletin (Finnish), ventilateur de plafond [masculine] (French), Deckenventilator [masculine] (German), છતપંખો (chatpaṅkho) (Gujarati), mennyezeti ventilátor (Hungarian), plafonventilátor (Hungarian), ventilatore da soffitto [masculine] (Italian), 天井扇風機 (tenjō senpūki) (Japanese), シーリングファン (shīringu fan) (Japanese), kipas siling (Malay), таазны сэнс (taazny sens) (Mongolian), wentylator sufitowy (Polish), ventilador de teto [masculine] (Portuguese), ventilator de tavan (Romanian), вентиля́тор (ventiljátor) [masculine] (Russian), ventilador de techo [masculine] (Spanish), abano [masculine] (Spanish), takfläkt [common-gender] (Swedish), พัดลมเพดาน (Thai), pervane (Turkish), quạt trần (Vietnamese)
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  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: someone who really likes ceilings..
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-07-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (b70b34c and e7887d5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.