clothes
nounverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//kləʊ(ð)z//
- United Kingdom//kləʊðz//
- United States//kloʊ(ð)z//
- United States//kloʊðz//
- Scotland//klo(ð)z//
Items of clothing; apparel.
noun
- 1
Items of clothing; apparel.
suit of clothes.
Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
- 2
The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.
- 3
Laundry (hung on a clothesline).
- 4
Also a form of clothobsoleteplural of cloth.
Etymology
From Middle English clothes, cloþes (plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”)), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”, plural of clāþ (“cloth”)), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Dutch klederen, kleren (“clothes”), German Kleider (“clothes”), Danish klæder (“clothes”), Swedish kläder (“clothes”), Norwegian Bokmål klær (“clothes”), Norwegian Nynorsk klede (“clothes”), Faroese klæði, klæðir (“clothes”).
verb
- 1
Also a form of clothethird-person singular simple present indicative of clothe
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.