Tailor

Definition: Tailor

Tailor

Noun

1. A person whose occupation is making and altering garments.

Verb

1. Make fit for a specific purpose.

2. Style and tailor in a certain fashion; "cut a dress"; "style a wedding dress".

3. Create (clothes) with cloth; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?".

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

Date "tailor" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Etymology: Tailor \Tai"lor\, noun. [Old French tailleor, French tailleur, from Old French taillier, French tailler to cut, from Latin talea a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for planting. Compare to Detail, Entail, Retail, Tally, noun]. (references)

19th Century Satire

Dream Interpretation

Occupations

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Synonyms: Tailor

Agent

Sempstress, semstress, seamstress; needlewoman, workwoman; tailor, cordwainer.

Clothing

Clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, sempstress, snip; dressmaker, habitmaker, breechesmaker, shoemaker; Crispin; friseur; cordwainer, cobbler, hosier, hatter; draper, linen draper, haberdasher, mercer.

Crosswords: Tailor

I hate the tailor. (Bad Boys II; writing credit: George Gallo; John Lee Hancock)

Joey's tailor took advantage of me. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Can I talk to you for a sec? Your tailor is a very bad man (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

A tailor, murdered with a pair of scissors (He Knows You're Alone; writing credit: Scott Parker)

Even a poor tailor deserves some happiness (Fiddler on the Roof; writing credit: Sholom Aleichem; Joseph Stein)

My mother was a tailor (House of the Rising Sun; performing artist: The Animals)

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailors lives (DANDELION; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

I'd like to meet his tailor (Werewolves of London; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: LeRoy P. Marinell, Waddy Wachtel and Warren Zevon)

I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn't suited for it. Mainly because it was a so-so job. (references; author: unknown)

The Gallant Little Tailor (1954)

Brave Little Tailor (1938)

The Valiant Tailor (1934)

A Tailor Made Man (1931)

The Tailor (1923)

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Books

• Walt Disney's Brave Little Tailor (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Custom Tailor (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Beatrix Potter - The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends - The Tailor of Gloucester (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Tailor Made (reference)

• Tailor Made Blessing (reference)

• Tailor of Panama [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 7, Tours, France. : Tailor and barber help carry wounded. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[A soldier's tailor shop, Quanchense]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

General Post Office from the corner of 8th Street and E Street, NW, Washington, D.C., the shop of Elija Dyer, merchant tailor, on the left. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. New York, ship's tailor. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Brooklyn, ship's tailor. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Massachusetts, tailor shop. Credit: Library of Congress.

The tailor shop. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rex Inman, farmer, near Estherville, Iowa, rolling a cigarette. Very few farmers smoke "tailor mades". Credit: Library of Congress.

Migrant vegetable pickers. The tailor and cleaner to laborers near Lake Harbor, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Potomac Electric Power Co. air conditioning and lighting. Tailor shop on Pennsylvania Ave. I. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

When a person starts a new epilepsy drug, it is important to tailor the dosage to achieve the best results. (references)

It must be emphasized that these are general guidelines and only your health care professional(s) can tailor a program specific to your needs. (references)

The same holds true for the use of physical activity in lowering the incidence of CHD. The panel believes that NIDDM patients should tailor an increase in their overall physical activity to their physical capacity, preferences, age, and lifestyle. (references)

Business

Tailor made packages for the health sector; hospitality and small businesses are being made with partner companies. (references)

This service has become very popular as budget hunters can tailor their holidays before hand to suit their requirements. (references)

The TOPAZ system also provides a flexible means to expand and tailor a domestic payment system to the requirements of the banking community. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

U.S. firms that succeed in Egypt tailor their products to customers' specific needs. (references)

South Africa

Customized Market Research, tailor made to any requirement and undertaken by contract specialists. (references)

Botswana

A pre-bid trip to Botswana to speak to project officials may improve the understanding of the precise needs of the client and allow the U.S. firm to tailor its proposals to those needs. (references)

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

Expressions using "tailor": bespoke tailor ♦ custom tailor ♦ it is not the tailor that makes the man ♦ man's tailor ♦ merchant tailor ♦ saltwater tailor ♦ Tailor bird ♦ tailor by profession ♦ tailor herring ♦ tailor made ♦ tailor shad ♦ tailor smth. to smb.. Additional references.

Beginning with "tailor": tailor-caste, tailor-cut, tailor-made, tailor-made suit, tailor-make, tailor-makes, tailor-making, Tailor-xxxx.

Ending with "tailor": master-tailor.

Albanian

rrobaqepës (cabbage, clothier, fashioner, modiste, needle, Sartor, seamstress, snipper, stitcher), qep (dry up, hold one's tongue, ligature, needle, seam, sew, sew on, stitch, tab). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خياط (dressmaker), ‏خاط (sew, stitch, suture). (various references)

Blackfoot

awaahkaniaaki. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кроя и шия дрехи по поръчка, абаджия (dealer of frieze, weaver of frieze), приспособявам (accommodate, adapt, adjust, conform, fashion, frame, gear, modulate, readjust, shape, suit, tune), изкусурявам. (various references)

Catalan

sastre. (various references)

Chinese 

裁缝 (Dressmaker, seamstress, Taylor, Taylors), 裁縫師 , 裁縫 (dressmaker). (various references)

Czech

ušít (sew), přizpùsobit (accommodate, accustom to, adapt, adjust, assimilate, comply, conform, fit, modulate, quadrate, readjust, regulate, suit, temper, tune), krejèí (Sartor). (various references)

Danish

skrædder. (various references)

Dutch

kleren maken. (various references)

Esperanto

tajloro, tajlorino (female tailor), tajlori. (various references)

Faeroese

skraddari. (various references)

Farsi 

خیاط, دوزندگی کردن (Sew). (various references)

Finnish

tilauspukimo, vaatturi, räätäli. (various references)

French

tailleur. (various references)

Frisian

skroar (needlewoman, seamstress). (various references)

German

Schneider (cutter, dressmaker, fitter, sartorial, slicer, tailors, taylors), schneidern (make, sew, to tailor). (various references)

Greek 

ράπτησ (sewer), ράπτης ενδυμασιών με μέτρο, ράπτης, ράφτησ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לחיט, ל�"תאים (adjust, compose, conform, fit, match, mate, meet, modify, peer, suit, tally), תופר, חיט (fitter). (various references)

Hungarian

szabó (snip, snipper). (various references)

Indonesian

penjahit (costumer, couturier). (various references)

Italian

sarto (dressmaker, sartorial, taylors), sasta (female, female tailor). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

裁縫師 (seamstress), 縫工 (seamstress), テーベ物語 (beefsteak, project, tail, tail end, tail fin, tail lamp, tailcoat, taillight, tailored, tailored suit, tailor-made, take, taste, Taylor system, tea, teeing ground, teenage, teen-age, teenager, teen-ager, Tegafur, tequila, Texas, Texas hit, Texas leaguer, text, text book, text file, textbook, textile, texture, Thebais, theme, Theme campaign, Theme music, theme park, Theme promotion, Theme song, tilapia, timpani, tissue, tissue paper, tissues, topic, TROFF, tympany, typical, tyranny), 洋服屋 (dressmaker, dressmaker's shop, tailor's), 仕立て屋 (dressmaker). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

テーラー , したてや (dressmaker), さいほうし (seamstress), ほう�"う (apprenticeship, aroma, balm, course, direction, emission of light, expulsion from school, fluctuation, fragrance, howl, muzzle, perfume, public duty, rambling, roaming, roar, seamstress, service, variation, wandering, way, yell), ようふくや (dressmaker, dressmaker's shop, tailor's). (various references)

Korean 

재단사 (Taylor, Taylors). (various references)

Malay

penjahit. (various references)

Manx

thalhear, jannoo cullee. (various references)

Maya

chuuy (hawk, to lift). (various references)

Norwegian

skredder. (various references)

Papago

shohshomiththam. (various references)

Papiamen

sastre. (various references)

Pig Latin

ailortay.(various references)

Portuguese

alfaiate (fitter, snipper), costureira (dressmaker, female tailor, needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress). (various references)

Romanian

exercita meseria de croitor, croitor (cutter, snip), croi un costum. (various references)

Romansch

cusunz. (various references)

Russian 

шить (needle, sew, sewed, sewn, sews, stitch), приспосабливать портной, портной (clothier, fashioner, merchant tailor, sartor, sewers, snipper). (various references)

Scottish

t� illear (a tailor). (various references)

Sepedi

moroko (bran). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prilagoditi (adapt, assimilate, gear to, modify, pitch, square, suit), krojiti (cut out), krojački (sartorial), krojač (dressmaker, fitter, sartor, stitcher), šnajder. (various references)

Shona

musoni. (various references)

Sicilian

sartu. (various references)

Spanish

sastre (snipper), costurera (dressmaker, female tailor, needlewoman, seamstress). (various references)

Swedish

skräddare (fashioner, sewer, water strider). (various references)

Tagalog

sástre, mananáhì. (various references)

Thai

ช่างตั�"เสื้อ, ตั�"เสื้อ. (various references)

Turkish

terzi (couturier, couturiere, dressmaker, sartorial, seamstress, sempstress), terzí, yakıştırmak (fit), uydurmak (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, concoct, conform, cook, cook up, dream up, fabricate, fake up, fashion, feign, fib, fit, forge, frame, fudge, gear, improvise, invent, key, make up, manufacture, mint, quadrate, reconcile, romance, spin, Square, square with, suit, syntonize, talk through one's hat, tally up, tell a fib, trump up, tune, tune up), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, Upend), adapte etmek (adapt). (various references)

Turkmen 

tikinзi (seamstress), biзmek (cut), biзimзi. (various references)

Ukrainian

шитися, шити (build, needle, sew, stitch), кравець (cabbage, clothier, sewer, snipper), витримувати у строгому стилі, птах-крвець. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thợ may người tốt vì lụa cưỡi ngựa kém. (various references)

Welsh

teilwra, teiliwr. (various references)

talea. (various references)

taliare. (various references)

seamere. (various references)

taliator vestium. (various references)

tailleor. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tailor": tailorbird, tailorbirds, tailored, tailoring, tailorings, tailors. (additional references)

Words ending with "tailor": retailor. (additional references)

Words containing "tailor": retailored, retailoring, retailors. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tailor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ailort, Dalibor, Kaylor, Taikoo, tailem, tailer, Tailleur, taillor, tailo, tailore, tailour, tailow, taimour, taino, taio, taiot, talar, talio, talir, tallor, talor, tayler, Tayloe, trailor, Trazlor, Tyaylor. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rialto.

-1 letter: lirot, ratio, tolar, trail, trial, triol.

-2 letters: airt, alit, alto, aril, iota, lair, lari, lati, liar, lira, lota, loti, oral, rail, rato, rial, riot, roil, rota, roti, rotl, tail, tali, taro, tirl, tiro, toil, tola, tora, tori, trio.

-3 letters: ail, air, ait, alt, art, lar, lat, lit, lot, oar, oat, oil, ora, ort.

+1 letter: dilator, litoral, oralist, orality, orbital, rialtos, tailors.

+2 letters: acrolith, adroitly, aerolite, aerolith, amitrole, antiroll, cilantro, clitoral, contrail, cortical, dicrotal, dilators, dilatory, dioptral, erotical, flatiron, floatier, horntail, idolater, idolator, idolatry, immortal, inflator, isolator, laborite, littoral, loricate, lothario, molarity, moralist, morality, notarial, oralists, orbitals, oriental, ostiolar, outrival, petiolar, polarity, rational, relation, retailor, rolamite, royalist, solitary, strobila, tailored, tonsilar, toroidal, tortilla, triazole, trifocal, trigonal, trilobal, trinodal, tripodal, troopial, tropical, troupial, tutorial, violater, violator, vortical.