clean
Betekenis
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- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of immorality or criminality.
- Free of immorality or criminality.
- Free of immorality or criminality.
- (informal) Free of immorality or criminality.
- (informal) Free of immorality or criminality.
- Smooth, exact, and performed well.
- (obsolete) Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
- (informal) Cool or neat.
- Free of infection or disease.
- Free of infection or disease.
- That does not damage the environment.
- Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
- Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
- Well-proportioned; shapely.
- Ascended without falling.
- (slang) Of a victory or performance: without any submission holds, disqualification, interference, etc.
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/kliːn/
Etymologie
From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).
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