clothing
Meanings
Plural: clothings
Noun
- a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
- Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.
- An act or instance of putting clothes on.
- The art or process of making cloth.
- A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
Verb
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
- cover as if with clothing
- present participle and gerund of clothe
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe + -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding.
Synonyms
adorn, apparel, article of clothing, attire, cloak, clothe, clothes, clothing, drape, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habiliment, habilitate, invest, raiment, robe, tog, vesture, wardrobe, wear, wearable, weed
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 14
clothing is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordclothing is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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