noun
- a thin oil obtained from petroleum, used as fuel for lamps, heaters, and jet engines
Examples
- The camping lantern burns kerosene for light.
- She filled the heater with kerosene before winter arrived.
- The old farmhouse still uses kerosene lamps in the evenings.
- Jet engines run on a refined form of kerosene.
- The kerosene stove provided heat during the power outage.
- He stored several gallons of kerosene in the shed.