English noun: sweeper | |||
1. | sweeper (person) an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.) | ||
Broader (hypernym) | employee | ||
2. | sweeper (artifact) a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet | ||
Synonyms | carpet sweeper | ||
Broader (hypernym) | cleaning device, cleaning equipment, cleaning implement | ||
3. | sweeper (animal) little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body | ||
Broader (hypernym) | teleost, teleost fish, teleostan | ||
Member meronym | family Pempheridae, Pempheridae | ||