clothes
Pronunciation: /kləʊ(ð)z/
The English word “clothes” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- Items of clothing; apparel.
- The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
- Laundry (hung on a clothesline).
Etymology
From Middle English clothes, cloþes (plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”)), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”, plural of clāþ (“cloth”)), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Dutch klederen, kleren (“clothes”), German Kleider (“clothes”), Danish klæder (“clothes”), Swedish kläder (“clothes”), Norwegian Bokmål klær (“clothes”), Norwegian Nynorsk klede…
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “clothes” there
More English words
About this dictionary
The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.
Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.