cooler

pronunciation

How to pronounce cooler in British English: UK [ˈku:lə(r)]word uk audio image

How to pronounce cooler in American English: US [ˈkulɚ] word us audio image

  • Noun:
    a refrigerator for cooling liquids
    an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice
    a cell for violent prisoners

Word Origin

cooler (n.)
1570s, "a vessel in which something is set to cool," agent noun from cool (v.). Meaning "insulated box to keep things cool" is from 1958. Slang meaning "jail" is attested from 1884.

Antonym

n.

heater

Example

1. The styrofoam picnic cooler was a postwar brainchild .
2. Haier sold a wine cooler for half the price of the industry leader .
3. The domino a.l.c cooler - of which you can expect a review soon - is being accepted by the public and the industry quite nicely .
4. The gas-powered refrigerator never really worked , while the freezer did , so we used a giant cooler that we opened as little as possible and rotated in small amounts of ice while letting water out the bottom .
5. Is there any beer left in the cooler ?

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