ceiling fan
noun1
A fan fixture attached to a ceiling, sometimes with a built-in light.
- It was set too high to reflect him, it carried only a shelf of looking-glass beer and the moving blades of the ceiling-fan.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 462:
2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: someone who really likes ceilings..
- Synonyms
- overhead fan