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Garb

Definitions: Garb

Garb

Noun

1. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.

Verb

1. Provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "garb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Garb

Synonyms: attire (n), apparel (v), clothe (v), dress (v), enclothe (v), fit out (v), garment (v), habilitate (v), raiment (v), tog (v). (additional references)
Antonym: undress (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Garb

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Clothing

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.

Deception

Adverb: under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of; over the left.

Divestment

In a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit; in puris naturalibus; with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked; bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand; out at elbows; barefoot; bareback, barebacked; leafless, napless, hairless.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Garb

English words defined with "garb": Beseemingcivies, civilian clothing, civilian dress, civilian garb, civvies, Clothes mothplain clothesStuff gown. (references)
Specialty definitions using "garb": ConvictsIram'Malice, MALKINTRASHPolar Bear. (references)
Etymologies containing "garb": Galbe. (references)

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Modern Usage: Garb

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

In Convict Garb (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Garb

DomainTitle

Books

  • Desert Garb & Gear: The Equipment of America=s Desert Warriors (reference)

  • Garb of Truth (reference)

  • Good Garb (reference)

  • Good garb : a practical guide to practical clothing (reference)

  • Jainism: In Western Garb, As a Solution to Life's Great Problems (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Garb

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Garb

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

"The Leader of the Expedition in Winter Garb." In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume I, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P.234. Library Call Number G149 S52.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Garb

AuthorQuotation

John Milton

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Garb

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He, Jean Valjean, he had taken her away from those rags to clothe her in this mourning garb.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Garb

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Korea

In 1999 the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) announced that criminal suspects, who previously had been required to wear prison garb in court, would be allowed to wear street clothes until proven guilty. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

In addition, even when a woman was permitted to be treated by a male doctor, the doctor was prohibited from examining her except if she were fully clothed in Taliban-approved garb, as well as from touching her, thus limiting the possibility of meaningful diagnosis and treatment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Garb

"Garb" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.29% of the time. "Garb" is used about 85 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)95.29%8136,835
Noun (proper)3.53%3202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.18%1339,140
                    Total100.00%85N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Garb

The following table summarizes the usage of "garb" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GarbLast name13063,926
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Garb

Expressions using "garb": civilian garb mourning garb. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Garb

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

renaissance garb

37

medieval garb

27

sca garb

27

garb

24

garb pirate

7

garb judge

6

celtic garb

6

garb world

5

garb viking

5

gamma garb

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Garb

Language Translations for "garb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vishem (Don, dress, get dressed, muffle), veshje (apparel, array, article of clothing, ascription, attire, attribution, clothes, clothing, cloudiness, dress, dressing, fig, furnishings, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliments, habit, incrustation, outfit, overlay, papering, raggery, raiment, sheath, strip, suit, tog, toggery, togs, vesture, wear), vesh (accredit, apparel, array, arrogate, ascribe, attire, attribute, back, cannon, clothe, coat, cover up, Don, dress, ear, endue, enrobe, face, gird, hanger, impute, inlay, invest, line, lug, overlay, paper, pop, pull on, put on, raceme, revet, sheathe, tapestry, throw on, tog, vesture, wear, whack), pamje e jashtme (appearance, exterior, externals, façade, jib, person, show, superficies, surf, surface). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كسا (array, attire, cake, clothe, coat, cover, drape, dress, encase, endue, equip, face, fur, garment, gird, glaze, invest, overlay, panel, plate, rig out, robe, sheathe, spread, suit, turn out), ‏ملابس (apparel, attire, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garment, gear, gown, outfit, raiment, rig, rigging, robe, suit, toggery, togs, wear), ‏زي (costume, fad, fashion, guise, style, twig, vogue). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

облекло (apparel, array, attire, clothes, clothing, dress, dressing, fig, garments, investment, livery, rig, rigging, tog, trim, turnout, vest, vesture, wear), обличам (accouter, accoutre, attire, clothe, coat, deck, dress, dress up, endue, garment, get on, gird, habit, invest, pull on, pull over, put on, rig, rig out, rig up, robe, tire, vest, vesture), одеяние (attire, guise, raiment, vesture), носия. (various references)

   

Czech

  

odìv (array, attire, clothes, clothing, garment, habiliment, habiliments, vest, wear). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پوشاک ویژه , کسوت , لباس پوشانیدن , لباس (Attire, Clobber, Clothing, Costume, Dress, Thing, Vest, Vestment), طرزرفتار, طرز (Manner, Method, Mode, Order, Rate, System, Way), جامه پوشانیدن به , ظاهر (Apparent, Appearance, Aspect, External, Face, Guise, Habit, Hue, Look, Mien, Ostensible, Outside, Rind, Surface). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ym (apparel, attire, dilate). (various references)

   

French

  

revêtir, habits (garment, garments), costume. (various references)

   

German

  

tracht (costume, dress, farrow, leathering, licking, litter, livery, load, outfit, suit, traditional costume, uniform), gewand (apparel, article of clothing, article of dress, costume, garment, gown, habit, outfit, suit, vestment, vestments, vesture). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ένδυμα (dud, garment, habiliment, habit, raiment, tog, vestment), ενδύω (accoutre, attire, clothe, costume, dress, endue, invest, rig, robe, vasty, vest), ενδυμασία (attire, costume, dress, gear, guise, habit, raiment, suit, suit of clothes, vesture). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לבוש (apparel, attired, be ashamed, clothed, clothing, dress, dressed, feel ashamed, garment, habited, raiment, rig, rig out, robed, vesture, wear). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

öltözet (clothes, clothing, get up, get-up, habiliments, investiture, raiment, rig, rig out, spare suit of clothes, suit, trim). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pakaian (attire, costume, dress, garment, vestiture, vestment, vesture, wear). (various references)

   

Italian

  

abito, abbigliamento, foggia del vestire, abbigliamento (apparel, apparel industry, array, attire, clothes, clothing, clothing industry, dress, dressing, raiment, rig, wear). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

僧衣 (priest's garb), 僧服 (priest's garb), 上下 (an old ceremonial garb, going up and down, high and low, praising and blaming, samurai garb, the government and the people, the upper and the lower parts of the body, unloading and loading, up and down). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そうふく (pair of hanging scrolls, priest's garb), そうい (consensus of opinion, difference, discrepancy, original idea, originality, priestly rank, priest's garb, scar, variation, wound), かみしも (an old ceremonial garb, samurai garb, the government and the people, the upper and the lower parts of the body). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arbgay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

guardar na garagem, vestir (accoutre, apparel, attire, clothe, costume, cover, Dona, dress, endurable, enrol, habitable, invest, put on, robe, to dress, vesture, wear), vestimenta (array, toilet, vestment, vesture), traje (apparel, clothes, costume, ensemble, garment, habiliment, outfit, raiment, suit, toilet, vestment), roupa (apparel, clothes, clothing, dressing, get up, vesture, wear, weed), feição (feature, lineament, trait), farda (livery, regimentals, uniform), atitude (aircraft attitude, aircraft position, attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, emplacement, expression, gait, gesture, mien, move, plant, poise, position, presence, set), aspecto (air, appearance, aspect, blush, cast, complexion, feature, fettle, guise, light, look, make, mien, outlook, presence, riskiness, sight, stability, stalking horse, view, visage), aparência (air, appearance, aspect, complexion, expression, exterior, external, guise, likewise, look, make, perspective, semblance, shell, shew, show, sight, stalking horse, surface, veneer, view). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

veşmânt (dress, garment, habit, raiment, robes, vestment), port (conduct, costume, Harbor, harbour, haven, port, seaport), fel caracteristic de îmbrãcãminte, înveşmânta (apparel, habit, robe, vest), îmbrãcãminte (accoutrement, attire, carpet, clothes, clothing, dress, fig, garment, gear, plank, rig, toggery, toilet, wear), îmbrãca (accoutre, array, attire, do on, draw on, dress, enclothe, endue, equip, habit, protect, put on, vest, wear, wore), ţinutã (attire, attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, carriage, clothing, conduct, deportment, figure, gait, hang, manner, mien, posture, rig, set, suit, trim, uniform). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

наряд (array, attire, detail, fig, finery, getup, police, rig). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odeća (apparel, clothes, clothing, dress, habiliment, habiliments, outerwear, outfit, raiment, rig, togs, vestments), obući (don, dress, enrobe, put on, robe, throw on, tog). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vestir a (attire, drape), vestido típico, vestido (caparison, clothes, covering, dress, dressed, dressing, ensemble, frock, garment, gown, lounge suit, raiment, rig out, robe, toilet, toilette), traje (costume, ensemble, frock, gear, gown, outfit, overalls, suit), ropaje (clothes, clothing), ponerse (attitudinize, become, begin, come over, commence, Don, draw on, dress, get, get down, get dressed, get into, get on, go, go down, go in, gown, grow, jump on, live, pose, pull on, put forward, put on, put on airs, put oneself, slip on, start, tag on, throw on, turn, turn about, turn around, up, wax, wear). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skrud (attire, raiment, vestment, vesture), kostym (costume, outfit, suit). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แต่งตัว (costume, garment, guise, habilitate, kit up), เครื่องแต่งตัว. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

giydirmek (array, attire, clothe, doll out, doll up, Don, dress, enrobe, equip, invest, revet, rig out, robe, turn out, vesture), kıyafet (apparel, attire, caparison, costume, dress, get up, habiliments, habit, livery, togs, turnout, vesture), kılık (apparel, appearance, attire, dress, guise, Jersey), özel giysi. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сніп жита, одягати (apparel, array, attire, clothe, costume, dress, enrobe, gown, habit), одяг (apparel, caparison, clobber, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garments, investment, outfit, rag, raiment, rig out, tailoring, things, togs, vestment, wear). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

diwyg (dress, form). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Garb

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

induviae, vestio. (various references)

Italian900-Modern

garbo. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

garbe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Garb

Derivations

Words beginning with "garb": garbage, garbageman, garbagemen, garbages, garbanzo, garbanzos, garbed, garbing, garble, garbled, garbler, garblers, garbles, garbless, garbling, garboard, garboards, garboil, garboils, garbs. (additional references)

Words containing "garb": sugarberries, sugarberry. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Garb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agarbi, farb, gaab, Gaar, Gabre, Gahr, Gahrr, gamb, Gapr, gara, garab, garbe, garbo, gareb, garf, garg, garibay, garibi, gark, garob, garp, gart, garu, gavr, gebr, gerb, gerc, gerg, gerk, gerp, Ghairbh, Gharbi, Gharib, Ghrib, girf, gnarf, gra, grabb, grax, gwar, jarb, larb, narb, Ngarba, Sgairbh, yarb, zarb. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Garb"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "garb" (pronounced gÄ"rb)
3-Ä" r barb, barb, Barbe.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Garb

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: brag, grab.

Words within the letters "a-b-g-r"

-1 letter: arb, bag, bar, bra, gab, gar, rag.

-2 letters: ab, ag, ar, ba.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-g-r"
 

+1 letter: barge, brags, garbs, grabs.

 

+2 letters: airbag, badger, bagger, banger, barege, barged, bargee, barges, baring, barong, beggar, borage, braggy, bregma, brogan, gabber, gabbro, gambir, garbed, garble, grabby, graben, ragbag, ratbag.

 

+3 letters: abridge, airbags, algebra, auberge, badgers, baggers, baggier, bagworm, bangers, barbing, barding, bareges, barfing, bargain, bargees, barging, barking, barongs, barrage, barring, bearhug, bearing, beggars, beggary, begorah, begorra, begroan, blaring, borages, bracing, bragged, bragger, braking, braving, braying, brazing, brewage, brigade, brigand, brogans, brokage, bugbear, burgage, burghal, burglar, dirtbag, embargo, gabbard, gabbart, gabbers, gabbier, gabbler, gabbros, gambier, gambirs, gambler, gambrel, garbage, garbing, garbled, garbler, garbles, garboil, gearbox, gerbera, grabbed, grabber, grabble, grabens, hagborn, hamburg, herbage, megabar, outbrag, probang, ragbags, ratbags, rebegan, sabring, umbrage, workbag.

 

+4 letters: abjuring, aborning, aborting, abrading, abridged, abridger, abridges, abrogate, absterge, algaroba, algebras, arguable, arguably, auberges, badgered, badgerly, bagpiper, bagworms, ballyrag, bandager, bargains, bargello, bargeman, bargemen, barghest, barguest, barogram, baronage, barraged, barrages, bearding, bearhugs, bearings, beggared, beggarly, beglamor, begorrah, begroans, beraking, berating, bergamot, beverage, bewaring, bigarade, bigaroon, birdcage, blearing, boarding, borating, bracings, bradding, braggart, braggers, braggest, braggier, bragging, braiding, brailing, braining, braising, brakeage, branding, branning, brassage, brassing, bravoing, brawling, breading, breakage, breaking, breaming, bregmata, bregmate, brewages, brigaded, brigades, brigands, brockage, brokages, brougham, bugbears, bullyrag, burgages, burglars, burglary, burgrave, crabbing, cribbage, dirtbags, drabbing, faubourg, gabbards, gabbarts, gabblers, gabbroic, gabbroid, gambiers, gamblers, gambrels, garbages, garbanzo, garblers, garbless, garbling, garboard, garboils, gerberas, glabrate, glabrous, globular, grabbers, grabbier, grabbing, grabbled, grabbler, grabbles, gradable, grayback, grazable, grosbeak, growable, hagberry, hamburgs, hangbird, herbages, laboring, landgrab, marbling, megabars, osnaburg, outbrags, pegboard, probangs, rabbling, rambling, rebating, ribgrass, ringbark, rumbaing, rutabaga, sabering, shagbark, subgrade, subgraph, tabering, taboring, tagboard, umbrages, verbiage, warbling, workbags.

 

+5 letters: abhorring, abnegator, aborigine, abridgers, abridging, abrogated, abrogates, absorbing, absterged, absterges, adsorbing, agreeable, agreeably, algarobas, algarroba, algebraic, ambergris, arabizing, arbitrage, ascribing, aubergine, badgering, bagpipers, ballyrags, bandagers, bannering, bantering, barbering, bargained, bargainer, bargellos, barghests, barguests, barograms, barograph, baronages, barraging, barrelage, barreling, bartering, battering, beachgoer, beavering, bedraggle, bedraping, beggaries, beggaring, beglamors, beglamour, begroaned, beleaguer, bereaving, bergamots, betraying, beverages, bewraying, bigarades, bigaroons, biography, birdcages, bluegrass, boardings, bodyguard, boogerman, boomerang, brabbling, bracingly, braggarts, braggiest, braidings, brailling, brakeages, brambling, branching, brandying, brannigan, brassages, brattling, brazening, breaching, breakages, breakings, breasting, breathing, bricolage, brigadier, brigading, broaching, brocading, brockages, brokerage, bromating, broughams, brummagem, budgetary, bullyrags, burgraves, cablegram, cambering, carpetbag, crabgrass, cribbages, debarking, debarring, drabbling, eggbeater, embargoed, embargoes, embarking, embarring, embracing, embrangle, faubourgs, forgeable, frangible, gabardine, gaberdine, garbanzos, garboards, garderobe, garibaldi, gearboxes, generable, glabellar, grabbiest, grabblers, grabbling, grandbaby, grantable, graspable, graybacks, graybeard, grazeable, greenback, grosbeaks, groupable, grubstake, guayabera, habergeon, hamburger, hangbirds, harbinger, harborage, harboring, ignorable, imbarking, jabbering, labouring, landgrabs, librating, litterbag, marblings, objurgate, osnaburgs, pegboards, porbeagle, prebaking, pregnable, probating, rabbeting, rabbiting, ramblings, rebaiting, rehabbing, rhumbaing, ringbarks, rutabagas, sagebrush, shagbarks, signboard, subgenera, subgrades, subgraphs, subrogate, tabouring, tagboards, unbarring, unbearing, unbracing, unbraking, upbearing, verbiages, vibrating, yabbering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Garb


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 61 72 62

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    .-.    -...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100001 01110010 01100010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#114 &#98

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0072 0062

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41678468

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Orthography
21. Bibliography


  

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