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Definition: Bathing Suit |
Bathing SuitNoun1. Tight fitting garment worn for swimming. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Bathing SuitSynonyms: bathing costume (n), swimming costume (n), swimsuit (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: costumed (european union, industry). |
Crosswords: Bathing Suit |
| English words defined with "bathing suit": bikini ♦ indecent ♦ maillot ♦ tank suit, two-piece. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bathing suit": cage clerk, CUPID ♦ dressing-room attendant ♦ locker attendant, LOCKER-ROOM ATTENDANT, locker-room clerk ♦ personal attendant ♦ Reef suit ♦ suit attendant. (references) |
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Screenplays | Well, on the other hand, I've got a bathing suit under my dress (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman) Yeah, my boyfriend said I got it while I was riding the tractor in my bathing suit. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Movie/TV Titles | He Was Only a Bathing Suit Salesman (1915) The Striped Bathing Suit (1912) | |
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![]() | Critical moments. The original bathing suit censor --. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Vince Lagrotteria looking at Karin Fester, who is modeling a bathing suit, in the cafeteria of the Pratt & Whitney machine tool plant in West Hartford, Conn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Composite photograph of two images, (left) woman wearing a bikini bathing suit and straw sun hat posed next to a bicycle on a beach; (right) an 1890s(?) studio portrait of a woman wearing cycling outfit posed on a high wheeler bicycle. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, standing at edge of ocean, in bathing suit, with left hand on boat, facing right. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Mack Sennett girl in bathing suit holding up oar. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Young woman posing in bathing suit with other bathers and spectators in background. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | First Annual Palm Fete, Dec. 7 to 11, 1920, Miami, Florida; The Bathing Suit Parade at Miami Beach. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| Language | Translations for "bathing suit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | badpak (bathing, bathing-suit), badkostuum (bathing, bathing-suit), badklere (bathing, bathing-suit), baaikostuum (bathing, bathing-suit), baaiklere (bathing, bathing-suit), swempak (bathing-suit). (various references) | |
Arabic | ثوب السباحة (swim suit). (various references) | |
Asturian | traxebañu. (various references) | |
Bemba | ifyakufwala paku samba. (various references) | |
Cebuano | panligo. (various references) | |
Chamorro | tráhen numangu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 泳衣 (swimsuit). (various references) | |
Czech | plavky (bathing costume, costume, swimming costume, swimsuit). (various references) | |
Danish | badedragt (bathing-suit). (various references) | |
Dutch | badpak (bathing-suit). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bankostumo (bathing-suit). (various references) | |
Faeroese | svimjiklæði. (various references) | |
French | maillot de bain (bathing costume, bathing trunks, bathing-suit). (various references) | |
Frisian | baaipak (bathing-suit). (various references) | |
German | Badeanzug (bathing costume, bathing-suit, swimsuit). (various references) | |
Greek | μαγιό μπάνιου (bathing costume, swinsuit), μαγιό (costume, swimming costume, swimming suit, swimming trunks, swimsuit). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ב'" ים (bathing costume, swim suit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | női fürdőruha (swimsuit), fürdõruha (bathing costume, swim suit), fürdôruha (bathing-suit). (various references) | |
Icelandic | sundföt (bathing-suit). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | puijurautit. (various references) | |
Italian | costume da bagno (bathing costume, bathing-suit, swimsuit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 海水着 , 海水パンツ , 水着 , 水泳着 (swimsuit). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいえいぎ (swimsuit), かいすいぎ, かいすいパンツ, みずぎ. (various references) | |
Macedonian | kostum za kapenje. (various references) | |
Norwegian | badedrakt (bathing-suit). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | athingbay uitsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maiô (br.) (maillot, swimsuit), fato de banho (bathing costume, swinsuit). (various references) | |
Provencal | malhòt. (various references) | |
Romanian | costum de baie (bathing costume, bathing-suit, swimsuit). (various references) | |
Romansch | vestgì da bogn. (various references) | |
Ruanda | impuzu zo kwogana. (various references) | |
Russian | купальный костюм (bathing costume, bathing-dress, maillot). (various references) | |
Samoan | ofu taele. (various references) | |
Spanish | traje de baño (bathing costume, bathing-suit, swimming suit, swimsuit, trunks). (various references) | |
Swedish | baddräkt (bathing-suit, swimming costume, swimsuit). (various references) | |
Turkish | mayo (bather, bathing costume, bathing dress, bathing-drowers, costume, one-piece bathing-suit, swim suit, swimming suit, trunks). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-h-i-i-n-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: situating. | |
-3 letters: abutting, battings, bittings, habiting, inhabits, shutting, tithings. | |
-4 letters: absinth, abusing, anguish, antibug, baiting, bashing, basting, bathing, batting, biasing, bitting, bushing, bushtit, busting, butting, habitus, hagbuts, hasting, hatting, histing, hitting, hutting, inhabit, insight, intuits, naughts, shuting, sitting, stating, suiting, sunbath, tabuing, tahinis, tasting, tauting, tithing, titians, tubaist, tubings, tushing, unsight. | |
-5 letters: aguish, ashing. | |
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