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Definition: Clothes |
ClothesNoun1. Covering designed to be worn on a person's body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clothes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Clothes \Clothes\, noun. plural [From Cloth.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing clothes soiled and torn, denotes that deceit will be practised to your harm. Beware of friendly dealings with strangers. For a woman to dream that her clothing is soiled or torn, her virtue will be dragged in the mire if she is not careful of her associates. Clean new clothes, denotes prosperity. To dream that you have plenty, or an assortment of clothes, is a doubtful omen; you may want the necessaries of life. To a young person, this dream denotes unsatisfied hopes and disappointments. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An article of clothing (also known as dress or attire) is any garment worn on the human body for protection against the elements, protection against work conditions, modesty, adornment, as a statement of socioeconomic class or religious affiliation, or as a means of maintaining a power hierarchy. (Humans have also dressed up non-human animals for a variety of reasons.) Clothing is a collective noun; the only singular form is "garment" or "article of clothing." Other adornments, such as jewelry, hairstyle, hats, and tattoos, are at times considered articles of clothing.
History of clothing
Prior to the invention of clothing, mankind existed in a state of nudity.
The earliest clothing was likely of fur, animal skin, leaves or grass, draped, wrapped or tied about the body for protection from the elements. Knowledge of such clothing is inferential, since clothing matrials deteriorate quickly compared to stone, bone, shell and metal artifacts. Very early sewing needles of bone and ivory, from about 30,000 B.C., were found near Kostenki, Russia in 1988.
Mark Stone, an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, has conducted a genetic analysis of human body lice that shows they first evolved only 72,000 ± 42,000 years ago. Since humans have very sparse body hair body lice require clothing to survive, so this suggests a surprisingly recent date for the invention of clothing. Its invention may have coincided with the spread of modern Homo sapiens from Africa, thought to have begun between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago.
Clothing and social status
The use of clothing can be a powerful social statement. Luxurious, perfectly tailored clothing in expensive fabrics marks the wearer as wealthy and powerful. Royalty has long assumed the exclusive privilege of wearing unique materials, such as purple-dyed cloth, ermine fur, or feathers of rare birds. Garments with a unique or trendy appearance show that the wearer is knowledgeable about fashion and wants to make a favorable impression. Mahatma Gandhi wore a simple loincloth to show his humility. Excessively worn, soiled clothing may indicate either poverty, illness, or disdain for appearances.
The "plain clothes" dress of Amish and Mennonite women not only sets them apart from the rest of industrialized America, but their headpiece specifically indicates acceptance of the hierarchy (God above men, men above women). Corsets worn by women from the Victorian era through the 1800's were intended to help support their frail bodies, but may instead have caused their fainting spells.
Dress codes
There are dress codes on certain social occasions and for certain jobs. Schools may require school uniforms; if plain clothes are allowed there may be restrictions (see for example [1] ). A doorkeeper of a disco or nightclub may judge visitor's clothing and refuse entrance to those who are not exotically or expensively clad.
Clothing may be intentionally oversized for reasons of fashion or personal preference. The rap duo Kriss Kross of two teenage boys wore all of their clothes backwards and extremely baggy.
Functional clothing
Some clothing is specialised equipment for a special purpose, such as a diving suit (these are included in the list below).
Part of the surface of clothes may be made retroreflective (small parts of coats, large parts of special high-visibility clothing for rescue workers etc.). This way they become much more visible in the dark for observers near a light source, such as the driver of a car with its headlights on. The pattern of the retroreflecting parts also helps to distinguish between objects and people.
For greater visibility at daytime, as well as for decoration, very bright colors are obtained with fluorescence. To reduce their visibility to other, soldiers and wildlife hunters or observers wear clothes with a camouflage pattern.
Fashionable clothing
Fashion in clothes has allowed wearers to express emotion or solidarity with other people for millennia. Modern Westerners have a wide choice available in the possible selection of their clothes. What a person chooses to wear can reflect their personality or likes. When people who have cultural status start to wear new or different clothes a fashion trend may start; people who like or respect them may start to wear clothes of a similar style.
Fashions may vary significantly within a society according to age, social class, generation, occupation and geography as well as over time.
Fashion houses and their associated fashion designers, as well as high-status consumers (including celebrities), appear to have some role in determining the rates and directions of fashion change in clothing.
Materials
Common clothing materials include:
Less common clothing materials include:
- Cloth
- Down for down-filled parkas
- Fur
- Denim
- Leather
Reinforcing materials such as wood, plastic and metal may be used to stiffen garments such as corsets, bodices, or swimsuits.
- Rubber
- PVC
Fetish clothing
See main article: Fetish clothingSome types of clothing, and clothing materials, are fetishized by some people. Commonly fetishized materials include leather, rubber, lycra and PVC. Commonly fetishized types of clothing include shoes and skin-tight clothing. Note that these materials are also used in functional clothing, and that some elements from fetish clothing have been adopted by mainstream fashion.
Production methods
Clothing production methods:
- Crochet
- Knitting
- Patchwork
- Sewing
Types of clothing
See List of types of clothing
Fictional clothes
- Invisibility cloak
Styles
- Plaid
Classes of garments
- One-piece garments
- Skin-tight garments
See also
- Casual Friday
- cross-dresser
- Drag queen
- Fashion
- Fetishism
- Japanese clothing
- Lycra
- Nudism
- Nudity
- Plastic
- Rubber
- Timeline of clothing and textiles technology
- transvestic fetishism
- Yarn
- XXL
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Clothing."
Synonyms: ClothesSynonyms: apparel (n), article of clothing (n), clothing (n), vesture (n), wear (n), wearing apparel (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Pants, trousers, trowsers; breeches, pantaloons, inexpressibles, overalls, smalls, small clothes; shintiyan; shorts, jockey shorts, boxer shorts; tights, drawers, panties, unmentionables; knickers, knickerbockers; philibeg, fillibeg; pants suit; culottes; jeans, blue jeans, dungarees, denims. |
Outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals; canonicals; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery; day wear, night wear, zoot suit; designer clothes; masquerade. | |
Noun: clothing, investment; covering; dress, raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim; habiliment; vesture, vestment; garment, garb, palliament, apparel, wardrobe, wearing apparel, clothes, things; underclothes. | |
Kimono; lungi; shooting-coat; mufti; rags, tatters, old clothes; mourning, weeds; duds; slippers. | |
Body clothes; linen; hickory shirt; shirt, sark, smock, shift, chemise; night gown, negligee, dressing gown, night shirt; bedgown, sac de nuit. | |
Dryness | Dessicator; hair drier, clothes drier, gas drier, electric drier; vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln; lyophilizer. |
Infant | In the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings; at the breast; in one's teens. |
Inutility | Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads. |
Restraint | Adjective: restrained, constrained; imprisoned;Verb: pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody, doing time; (prisoner); cohibitive; coactive; (compulsory). |
Subjection | Break in, tame; subject, subjugate; master; tread down, tread under foot; weigh down; drag at one's chariot wheels; reduce to subjection, reduce to slavery; enthrall, inthrall, bethrall; enslave, lead captive; take into custody; (restrain); rule; drive into a corner, hold at the sword's point; keep under; hold in bondage, hold in leading strings, hold in swaddling clothes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Clothes |
| English words defined with "clothes": clothes basket, clothes closet, clothes drier, clothes dryer, clothes hamper, clothes peg, clothes pin ♦ Long clothes ♦ plain clothes ♦ street clothes. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "clothes": bunker clothes ♦ clothes chute, clothes tree ♦ shifting clothes ♦ thermo clothes ♦ Wedding Clothes. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "clothes": Woolward-going. (references) |
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Screenplays | Are you going to get me some clothes, or should I just go like this (Alien³; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) Why do you wear the same clothes all the time (City of Angels; writing credit: Dana Stevens. Based on the screenplay for the 1997 film 'Der Himmel über Berlin') Your clothes, give them to me. (The Terminator; writing credit: James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, Harlan Ellison) I'll be right back, take your clothes off. (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese; Charles Crichton) Please, Mr. Merchant of Death, sir, please, sell me something that will stink up my breath and my clothes and fry my lungs (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) | |
Lyrics | If you had let me know, I wouldn't have put on my clothes (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) A second hand clothes (Rock In A Hard Place (Cheshire Cat); performing artist: Aerosmith) His dirty clothes are all he gives to her (Flavor of the Weak; performing artist: American Hi-Fi) They had a problem with his baggy clothes (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne) Change in to some drier clothes (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) | |
Clever | Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. (references; author: Mark Twain) Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. (references; author: Mark Twain) Man who lives in glass house should change clothes in basement. (references; author: unknown) On packaging for a Rowenta iron: "Do not iron clothes on body. (references; author: unknown) Any man who laughs at women's clothes has never paid the bill for them. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes (1972) Tuktu and His Nice New Clothes (1968) The Emperor's New Clothes (1966) Take Off Your Clothes and Live (1962) The Emperor's Clothes (1960) | |
Song Titles | We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off (performing artist: Jermaine Stewart) Underneath Your Clothes (performing artist: Shakira) | |
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 | White woman from neck to waist wearing a bra, indicating breast reconstruction post mastectomy. Surgery enables women to have a better self image, looking good in clothes, and facilitating psychological readjustment. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Native trades boar for clothes and haircut Now the ship has a brand new crewman Photo #2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A living history with women and a child dressed in clothes from pioneer days. A large ox is standing by the young girl. Credit: Unknown. |  | Edison Wood Products, Inc., publicity photo, no. 603-5, chest; and no. 704, chifforobe with metal sliding clothes hanger;{19.000/45}. |
 | [Public Health - Yugoslavia.] : [Three women handwashing clothes at an outside basin.] / attributed to Dr. Andrija Stampar. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Russian Poster: two scenes washing clothes outdoors; children skating in winter: women beating clothes]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Photographed in civilian clothes in 1914, while he was serving in USS Florida (BB-30). Credit: NAVY. |  | Main city market, booths for clothes and shoes, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
 | The Blundells were sure they had seen Tommy, dressed in native clothes, drifting through the thieves' market. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Is you ever wo' striped clothes an' studied 'bout bluffin' de bizness end of a shotgun?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Legs, clothes and privacy 01" by Luciano Guedes Commentary: "I was there, doing nothing... then, I had an idea..." | "Clothes 01" by Nicholas Sales Commentary: "Clothes." |
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 | Washing machine washing clothes. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry David Thoreau | Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. |
| Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes. | |
Jonathan Swift | She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk. |
Mencius | In clothes we value novelty; in men, old age. |
Thomas Fuller | Good clothes open all doors. |
| Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. | |
| Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches. | |
| Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. | |
William Shakespeare | Fashion wears out more clothes than the man. |
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John Locke | 1690 | The bonds of this subjection are like the swaddling clothes they art wrapt up in, and supported by, in the weakness of their infancy: age and reason as they grow up, loosen them, till at length they drop quite off, and leave a man at his own free disposal. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Arthur glanced around him once more, and then down at himself, at the sweaty disheveled clothes he had been lying in the mud in on Thursday morning |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His clothes were torn and covered with mud. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They had all fathers and mothers and different clothes and voices |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | His eyes began at the new cap, moved down the new clothes to the new shoes |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I have already told the reader, that every night when the family were gone to bed it was my custom to strip and cover myself with my clothes. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Put on clean clothes. (references) | |
Wear loose-fitting clothes. (references) | ||
Others may drench your clothes. (references) | ||
Business | They usually dress up in new clothes at these occasions. (references) | |
For the winter months (June to August), both genders need warm clothes and topcoats. (references) | ||
Nylon cloth, however, grew the faster in production, followed by acrylic, PFY, polyester staple, cotton and rayon clothes. (references) | ||
Children | Kyrgyz Republic | Jetkinchek, a Presidential Educational Program created in 1999, provides assistance such as pens, books, and clothes to low-income children. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | In 2000 a Daily News journalist, a photographer, and a driver, were detained, threatened, and forced to remove their clothes and chant ZANU-PF slogans. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Security forces beat Imam Bakary and others, stripped them of their clothes, and detained them for several days in Abidjan's police and gendarme camps. (references) | |
Economic History | Tanzania | The U.S. has been the major source of Tanzania's used clothes. (references) |
Japan | American fashion, particularly casual clothes, continues to hold wide appeal in Japan. (references) | |
Togo | Imports--$623 million: consumer goods, including foodstuffs, fabrics, clothes, vehicles, equipment. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belarus | Other policemen then removed all of his clothes and placed him in a cold cell overnight. (references) |
Yugoslavia | Special police in plain clothes were involved in violence against opposition supporters. (references) | |
Central African Republic | The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) and religious groups routinely provide supplies, food, and clothes to prisoners. (references) | |
Minorities | Dominican Republic | In exchange, the parents receive monetary payment or a supply of clothes and food. (references) |
Political Economy | CHINA | Chinese counterfeiters market unauthorized copies of a wide variety of products, from motorcycles and designer-label clothes, to VCD's and computer hardware under U.S. trademarks. (references) |
RUSSIA | Widespread sales of pirated U.S. videocassettes, recordings, books, computer software, clothes, toys, medicines, foods and beverages continue, and there are disturbing signs of increased manufacturing capacity for optical media that could be used to produce pirated product. (references) | |
Trade | Liberia | Most luxury items, including electronic equipment, furniture, clothes, and alcoholic beverages are charged a 25 percent duty tax. (references) |
Travel | Russia | Winter clothes may be needed as early as October or as late as April. (references) |
Bulgaria | Businesspeople may go without a jacket or tie or wear casual clothes in summer. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Dominican Republic | Field guards reportedly kept workers' clothes and documents to prevent them from leaving. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner. |
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Diane Sawyer | I treat them as sheer fun in all possible directions. I am your dishiest Academy Awards reporter. Don't come to me if you want lofty thoughts, OK. I'm going for the clothes, I'm going for how Russell Crowe looked at me. |
Nancy Grace | Well, as you know, I'm clearly not a New Yorker. But long story short, I don't care what the man's driving. I care about the girl's blood on the clothes that he was taking to the cleaner the weekend of her disappearance. |
Sally Jessy Raphael | They've got bikes now, and they've got clothes. We don't do this very often, but someone who wants to remain anonymous wanted to give you something very special. The key goes to a new home. |
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| "Clothes" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "Clothes" is used about 7,267 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.95% | 7,263 | 1,333 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,267 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "clothes": a change of clothes ♦ a suit of clothes ♦ baby clothes ♦ bed clothes ♦ Body clothes ♦ bunker clothes ♦ casemaking clothes moth ♦ cast of clothes ♦ casual clothes ♦ casuals clothes ♦ change one's clothes ♦ civilian clothes ♦ clothes basket ♦ clothes brush ♦ clothes chute ♦ clothes closet ♦ clothes designer ♦ clothes drier ♦ clothes dryer ♦ clothes hamper ♦ clothes hanger ♦ clothes line ♦ clothes made to order ♦ clothes moth ♦ clothes peg ♦ clothes pin ♦ clothes rack ♦ clothes store ♦ clothes tree ♦ damp clothes ♦ designer clothes ♦ dirty clothes ♦ dress clothes ♦ dressed in everyday clothes ♦ evening clothes ♦ everyday clothes ♦ fatigue clothes ♦ grave clothes ♦ hold in swaddling clothes ♦ holiday clothes ♦ huddle on one's clothes ♦ in plain clothes ♦ in smb.'s best clothes ♦ innocent of clothes ♦ jogging clothes ♦ leisure clothes ♦ Long clothes ♦ make smb.'s clothes ♦ men's clothes ♦ night clothes ♦ old clothes ♦ old clothes shop ♦ our clothes ♦ peg clothes on the line ♦ pit one's clothes off ♦ pit one's clothes on ♦ plain clothes ♦ plain clothes man ♦ pop one's clothes ♦ provide with clothes ♦ put on one's clothes ♦ quality clothes ♦ ready to wear clothes ♦ remove one's clothes ♦ restricting clothes ♦ rotary clothes line ♦ scramble into one's clothes ♦ secondhand clothes dealer ♦ secondhand clothes shop ♦ set of clothes ♦ small clothes ♦ sports clothes ♦ stand for men's clothes ♦ store clothes ♦ street clothes ♦ stuff clothes into a bag ♦ suit of clothes ♦ summer clothes ♦ swaddling clothes ♦ take off one's clothes ♦ take off smb.'s clothes ♦ take smb.'s clothes off ♦ taking off one's clothes ♦ thermo clothes ♦ togged dressed esp in smart clothes ♦ tumble into smb.'s clothes ♦ unhampered by clothes ♦ wash the clothes ♦ wear clothes ♦ webbing clothes moth ♦ winter clothes ♦ winterweight clothes ♦ women's clothes ♦ work out clothes ♦ workaday clothes ♦ working clothes ♦ wring clothes ♦ your clothes. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "clothes": clothes-bag, clothes-buying, clothes-chests, clothes-hooks, clothes-horse, clothes-horses, clothes-line, clothes-lines, clothes-lining, clothes-making, clothes-man, clothes-manufacturing, clothes-peg, clothes-pegs, clothes-pins, clothes-press, clothes-prop, clothes-sense, clothes-shops, clothes-speak, clothes-styles, clothes-switch, clothes-talk, clothes-thick, clothes-washing. | |
Ending with "clothes": bed-clothes, day-clothes, grave-clothes, night-clothes, plain-clothes. | |
Containing "clothes": old-clothes man. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
clothes | 6,973 | woman clothes | 385 |
express clothes | 1,643 | tight clothes | 384 |
ski clothes | 1,136 | hollister clothes | 349 |
dog clothes | 1,063 | urban clothes | 335 |
cool clothes | 973 | indian clothes | 320 |
kid clothes | 924 | dance clothes | 303 |
man clothes | 800 | tennis clothes | 297 |
punk clothes | 703 | cheap clothes | 290 |
discount designer clothes | 696 | junior clothes | 270 |
girl clothes | 689 | see through clothes | 265 |
summer clothes | 660 | club clothes | 255 |
running clothes | 586 | hippie clothes | 249 |
fashion clothes | 564 | nursing clothes | 249 |
vintage clothes | 563 | no clothes | 240 |
barbie clothes | 514 | shopping clothes | 229 |
plus size maternity clothes | 485 | wholesale clothes | 213 |
hip hop clothes | 475 | work clothes | 212 |
gothic clothes | 474 | clothes hanger | 208 |
golf clothes | 427 | discount clothes | 203 |
hawaiian clothes | 418 | stripper clothes | 201 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "clothes"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | klere (clothing). (various references) | |
Albanian | veshmbathje (dress), veshje (apparel, array, article of clothing, ascription, attire, attribution, clothing, cloudiness, dress, dressing, fig, furnishings, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliments, habit, incrustation, outfit, overlay, papering, raggery, raiment, sheath, strip, suit, tog, toggery, togs, vesture, wear), tesha (baggage, clothing, linen, luggage), shtrati, rroba (dress, duds, laundry, raiment, things, tog, toggery, togs, vesture, wardrobe), mbulesë (bonnet, cloth, clothing, coat, counterpane, cover, curtain, dustsheet, envelope, envelopment, folder, haircloth, hood, mantle, overcast, overlay, Pall, pod, seating, suffusion, throw, vesture), lëvere. (various references) | |
Arabic | كسوة (apparel, attire, clothing, feather, garments, livery, panoply, vesture), ملابس (apparel, attire, clothing, costume, dress, garb, garment, gear, gown, outfit, raiment, rig, rigging, robe, suit, toggery, togs, wear), أغطية السرير, ثياب (bib, raiment, togs). (various references) | |
Basque | soineko. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | istotoohsin. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | облекло (apparel, array, attire, clothing, dress, dressing, fig, garb, garments, investment, livery, rig, rigging, tog, trim, turnout, vest, vesture, wear), дрехи (clothing, dress, duds, gear, get up, things, toggery, togs). (various references) | |
Catalan | roba (clothing). (various references) | |
Chamorro | kana' magagu (clothes hanger). (various references) | |
Chinese | 衣裳 . (various references) | |
Cornish | gwyscas. (various references) | |
Czech | prádlo (laundry, linen, wash, washing), odìv (array, attire, clothing, garb, garment, habiliment, habiliments, vest, wear), oblečení, obleèení (clothing, dress, wear), šaty (apparel, dress, dresses, frock, garments, outfit, suit, wear), šatstvo. (various references) | |
Danish | tøj (clothing), klæder (clothing). (various references) | |
Dutch | kleren (clothing), kleding (article of clothing, clothing, garment, toilet). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | tacllana (to wash clothes). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vestoj (clothing). (various references) | |
Faeroese | strúka (iron, iron clothes), pressa (iron, iron clothes). (various references) | |
Farsi | ملبوس , جامه لباس , رخت (Apparel, Garment). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaatteet (clothing, dress), puku (costume, dress, frock, garments, gown, outfit, robe, suit). (various references) | |
French | vêtements (clothing). (various references) | |
Frisian | klean (clothing), klaaiïng (clothing). (various references) | |
German | kleider (apparel, clothing, dresses, garments, gowns, outfit), Sommersachen (summer clothes), Kleidung (apparel, article of dress, attire, clothing, dress, garment, outfit, raiment, wardrobe, wear). (various references) | |
Greek | ρούχα (duds, garments, habiliments, toggery, wearering apparel). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלבושים (duds), בגד (clothing, costume, dress, garment, tog). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ruházat (apparel, attire, clothing, raiment, trim, vesture, weed), öltözék (accoutrements, clothing, dress, garment, get up, get-up, guise, habiliments, raiment, toilet, toilette). (various references) | |
Indonesian | baju (blouse, clothing, jacket, shirt). (various references) | |
Italian | biancheria (linen). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 衣. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふく (additional, assistant, associate, auxiliary, bend down, collateral, compound, copy, crawl, crouch, deputy, double, duplicate, fall prostrate, good fortune, hide, lie down, prostrate oneself, stoop, sub-, submit to, substitute, supplementary, to blow, to dry, to emit, to spout, to wipe, vice-, yield to), いふく (awe, awe into submission, child of a different mother), いるい (clothing, different kinds, garments, varieties), ころも, えもん (drapery, dress). (various references) | |
Korean | 옷. (various references) | |
Malay | pakaian (clothing). (various references) | |
Manx | eaddagh lhiabbagh. (various references) | |
Maya | po' (laundress, to wash clothes). (various references) | |
Mohawk | ahkwennya'. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kledning (clothing), klær. (various references) | |
Occitan | vestit. (various references) | |
Papago | eniga. (various references) | |
Papiamen | paña (clothing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | othesclay.(various references) | |
Polish | prasować (iron, iron clothes). (various references) | |
Portuguese | roupa (apparel, clothing, dressing, garb, get-up, vesture, wear, weed), roupas (clothing, garment, get-up, outfit, tog, toggery, wardrobe). (various references) | |
Romanian | veşminte (apparel, array, attire, gown, guise, habit, ornament), straie, rufe (underlinen, underwear), rufãrie (linen), lenjerie (bed clothes, linen, linen drapery, lingerie, underlinen, underwear), haine (accoutrement, apparel, clothing, creature comforts, dress, fig, habiliment, raiment, rigging, suit, wear), garderobã (cloakroom, cloak-room, wardrobe), îmbrãcãminte (accoutrement, attire, carpet, clothing, dress, fig, garb, garment, gear, plank, rig, toggery, toilet, wear). (various references) | |
Romansch | vestgadira. (various references) | |
Romany | shèhya. (various references) | |
Russian | одевать;облекать одежда одежный, одежда (aparel, apparel, clobber, clothing, costume, dress, garment, garments, get up, maternity clothes, raggery, raiment, rig, rigging, the outward man, tog, toggery, togs, turn out, undercoat, vestment, wear), платье (apparel, clothing, custom clothes, dress, frock, gown, habiliments). (various references) | |
Scottish | trusgan (garment, suit of clothes), earradh (accoutrements, dress), aodach (cloth). (various references) | |
Sepedi | diaparo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odeća (apparel, clothing, dress, garb, habiliment, habiliments, outerwear, outfit, raiment, rig, togs, vestments). (various references) | |
Shona | mbatya. (various references) | |
Spanish | ropa (clothing, dress, things, wear), ropaje (clothing, garb). (various references) | |
Sranan | krosi (clothing). (various references) | |
Swahili | nguo (article of clothing, clothing, garment). (various references) | |
Swazi | tín-gubo. (various references) | |
Swedish | kläder (apparel, clothing, dress, duds, kit, outfit, tog, wear). (various references) | |
Turkish | yatak takımları (bedclothes), giysi (apparel, attire, caparison, clothing, costume, dress, garment, guise, raiment, robe, tire, tog, toggery, vesture, wear), elbise (apparel, attire, clothing, costume, dress, garment, gown, habit, raiment, robe, tire, tog, toggery, wear), elbíse (clothing), üstbaş, örtüler, çamaşır (laundry, linen, washing, washings). (various references) | |
Turkmen | geяim-eюik, geяim, eюikler, eюik, egin-eюik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | убрання (apparel, array, attire, caparison, cloth, costume, decoration, dress, feather, raiment, trim, turn out, vesture), чіста білизна, одяг (apparel, caparison, clobber, clothing, costume, dress, garb, garments, investment, outfit, rag, raiment, rig out, tailoring, things, togs, vestment, wear), білизна (argent, laundry, snow, snow white, underlinen, washing, white, whiteness), брудна білизна, пелюшки (swaddling clothes). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhậy cắn quần áo (clothes-moth), giá phơi quần áo (clothes-horse), dây phơi quần áo (clothes-line), bàn chải quần áo (clothes-brush). (various references) | |
Welsh | dillad (apparel, clothing). (various references) | |
Yucatec | nook' (clothing). (various references) | |
Zulu | -ayina (iron, iron clothes). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | induviae, veste, vestem, vestes, vestesque, vestibus, vestimenta, vestimenti, vestimentis, vestimento, vestimentorum, vestimentum, vestis, vestium. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | vastra. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 19, Verse 36 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Poreuomenou de autou upestrwnnuon ta imatia autwn en th odw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Eunte autem illo substernebant vestimenta sua in via |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And þa he for. hi strehton under hine hyra reaf on þam wege. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe him goynge, thei vndir strewiden her clothis in the weye. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And as he wet they spredde their clothes in ye waye. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And while he went on his way they put their clothing down on the road in front of him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 19, Verse 36 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa nagpalakaw na siya niini, sila nanagpamuklad sa ilang mga kupo diha sa dalan. |
| Chinese | 走 的 時 候 、 眾 人 都 把 衣 服 鋪 在 路 上 。 |
| Croatian | I kuda bi on prolazio, prostirali bi po putu svoje haljine. |
| Danish | Og da han drog frem, bredte de deres Klæder under ham på Vejen. |
| Dutch | En als Hij voort reisde, spreidden zij hun klederen onder Hem op den weg. |
| Finnish | Ja hänen kulkiessaan kansa levitti vaatteensa tielle. |
| French | Quand il fut en marche, les gens étendirent leurs vêtements sur le chemin. |
| German | Da er nun hinzog, breiteten sie ihre Kleider auf den Weg. |
| Haitian Creole | Pandan Jezi t'ap vanse sou bourik la, moun yo tann rad yo atè sou tout chemen an. |
| Hungarian | És mikor õ méne, az õ felsõruháikat az útra teríték. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sementara Ia lewat dengan menunggangi keledai itu, orang-orang membentangkan jubah mereka di jalan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka sementara Ia berjalan, orang pun membentangkan pakaiannya di jalan. |
| Italian | Via via che egli avanzava, stendevano i loro mantelli sulla strada. |
| Maori | A, i a ia e haere ana, ka wharikitia o ratou kakahu ki te huarahi. |
| Norwegian | Da han nu drog frem, bredte de sine klær under ham på veien. |
| Portuguese | E, enquanto ele ia passando, outros estendiam no caminho os seus mantos. |
| Rumanian | Pe cknd mergea Isus, oamenii kwi awterneau hainele pe drum. |
| Shuar | Tura Jesus wétinnium ni pushirin jintianam ayaparar aintrarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Y mientras él avanzaba, tendían sus mantos por el camino. |
| Swahili | Yesu akaendelea na safari, na watu wakatandaza mavazi yao barabarani. |
| Swedish | Och där han färdades fram bredde de ut sina mantlar under honom på vägen. |
| Uma | Kaliu-na Yesus mpohawi' keledai tohe'e, tauna mpokodo baju-ra hi mata ohea, tanda pebila' -ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clothes": clotheshorse, clotheshorses, clothesline, clotheslined, clotheslines, clotheslining, clothespin, clothespins, clothespress, clothespresses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "clothes": beclothes, bedclothes, nightclothes, plainclothes, reclothes, smallclothes, unclothes, underclothes. (additional references) | |
Words containing "clothes": plainclothesman, plainclothesmen. (additional references) | |
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"Clothes" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Calathea, calatheas, clathe, Cleophas, cloaths, Cloghesy, cloothes, clooties, Clotes, clother, clothies, clothos, Clutha, Cluthas, Cluther, cothwas, Klothes, scolithes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clothes" (pronounced klō"thz or klō"z) |
| 3 | -ō" th z | oaths. |
| 4 | k l ō" z | close, disclose, enclose, foreclose, plainclothes. |
| 3 | -l ō" z | blows, flows, glows, Lowes, lows, slows. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-l-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: closet, clothe, cloths, helots, hostel, hotels, tholes. | |
-2 letters: celts, chest, chose, close, cloth, clots, coles, colts, coset, cotes, echos, escot, ethos, helos, helot, holes, holts, hosel, hotel, letch, lochs, sheol, shote, sloth, socle, stole, telos, thole, those, toles. | |
-3 letters: cels, celt, clot, cole, cols, colt, cosh, cost, cote, cots, echo, etch, eths, helo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-l-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: blotches, cholates, cholents, chortles, eschalot, selcouth. | |
+2 letters: beclothes, catechols, chelators, chlorates, chlorites, chortlers, clothiers, eschalots, helicopts, potlaches, reclothes, splotched, splotches, trochleas, unclothes. | |
+3 letters: bedclothes, blotchiest, catchpoles, cerecloths, charlottes, chelations, chocolates, chrysolite, chrysotile, clothespin, decathlons, facecloths, homiletics, isoplethic, orchestral, orthoclase, photocells, pitchpoles, potlatches, schoolmate, schooltime, slouchiest, splotchier, touchholes, touchlines, tracheoles, trochlears. | |
+4 letters: blowtorches, chalcocites, cheesecloth, chlorinates, cholestases, cholestasis, cholestatic, cholesteric, cholesterol, chrysolites, chrysotiles, clothesline, clothespins, coelacanths, coltishness, eschatology, grapholects, hectoliters, helicopters, heptachlors, interschool, lymphocytes, orthoclases, ostrichlike, patchoulies, polychaetes, saddlecloth, schoolmates, schooltimes, shuttlecock, spirochetal, splotchiest, stockholder, tablecloths, tocopherols. | |
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