gasholder
noun
gasholder is a noun meaning “A large cylindrical tank used for storing gas, especially town gas (1870s-1940s) or natural gas (1950s-present). Types include one with telescopic…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-A-S-H-O-L-D-E-R, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gasholder is gasholders.
What does gasholder mean?
noun
- 1
A large cylindrical tank used for storing gas, especially town gas (1870s-1940s) or natural gas (1950s-present). Types include one with telescopic sections with wet seals in between and one with a nontelescoping tank and a dry seal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce gasholder?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-gasholder.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of gasholder
- gasholders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gasholder?
Gasholder appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Gasholder in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | gazomètre |
| German | Gasbehälter, Gasspeicher, Gasometer |
| Portuguese | gasómetro, gasômetro |
| Spanish | gasómetro |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gasholder come from?
From gas + holder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).