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Definitions: Garb |
GarbNoun1. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion. Verb1. 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: GarbSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Garb |
| English words defined with "garb": Beseeming ♦ civies, civilian clothing, civilian dress, civilian garb, civvies, Clothes moth ♦ plain clothes ♦ Stuff gown. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "garb": Convicts ♦ Iram' ♦ Malice, MALKINTRASH ♦ Polar Bear. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "garb": Galbe. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | In Convict Garb (1913) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & 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. |
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John Milton | Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He, Jean Valjean, he had taken her away from those rags to clothe her in this mourning garb. |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.29% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.53% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 85 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Garb | Last name | 130 | 63,926 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "garb": civilian garb ♦ mourning garb. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
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. | |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | induviae, vestio. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | garbo. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | garbe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "garb" (pronounced gÄ"rb) |
| 3 | -Ä" r b | arb, barb, Barbe. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 72 62 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- .-. -... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110010 01100010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a r b |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0072 0062 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41678468 |
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