Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sweeper

3 senses of sweeper

Sense 1
sweeper -- (an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.))
       => employee -- (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Sense 2
carpet sweeper, sweeper -- (a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet)
       => cleaning implement, cleaning device, cleaning equipment -- (any of a large class of implements used for cleaning)

Sense 3
sweeper -- (little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body)
       => teleost fish, teleost, teleostan -- (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)