clothing
NounUS[kloh-thing]/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- a covering designed to be worn on a person's bodySynonyms: article of clothingvesturewearwearablehabilimentType of covering, consumer goodsKinds apparel, uniform, blue, attire, garment, grey, accessory, change, street clothes, headdress +23 moreParts wardrobe
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Translations
Noun clothes, garments
- Spanish
- indumentaria
- French
- habillement
- German
- Kleidung
- Italian
- abbigliamento
- Portuguese
- roupa
- Turkish
- giysi
- Russian
- оде́жда odéžda
- Chinese
- 衣服 yīfu
- Japanese
- 服 fuku
- Dutch
- kleding
28 more languages
- Polish
- odzież
- Swedish
- kläder
- Greek
- ρούχο roúcho
- Korean
- 옷 ot
- Indonesian
- pakaian
- Vietnamese
- quần áo
- Hungarian
- ruha
- Portuguese (PT)
- roupa
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 衣服 yīfu
- Breton
- dilhad
- Catalan
- roba
- Czech
- oblečení
- Danish
- tøj
- Esperanto
- vestaĵo
- Estonian
- riietus
- Finnish
- vaatetus
- Georgian
- ტანსაცმელი ṭansacmeli
- Hebrew
- לְבוּשׁ levúsh
- Icelandic
- klæðnaður
- Latvian
- apģērbs
- Malagasy
- akanjo
- Norwegian
- tøy
- Romanian
- îmbrăcăminte
- Scottish Gaelic
- aodach
- Serbo-Croatian
- odjeća
- Slovak
- oblečenie
- Slovenian
- obleka
- Welsh
- dillad
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Cloth′ing noun
1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing.— John Milton
As for me,... my clothing was sackloth.— Ps. xxxv. 13
2. The art of process of making cloth. rare
Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing.— John Ray
3. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. Knight, Edward Henry
4. Machinery See Card clothing, under 3d Card.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54