evening dress

English

Noun

evening dress (countable and uncountable, plural evening dresses)

1. (countable) An elegant dress worn by women, especially for social events in the evening, an evening gown.
2. (uncountable) Formal attire worn for evening social events.

   I felt uncomfortably conspicuous, since I was the only man in evening dress.

   • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:

     She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

Synonyms

• evening gown

Translations

elegant dress worn by women

• Afrikaans: aandrok, aandjapon, dansrok
• Czech: róba (cs) f
• Danish: aftenkjole c
• Dutch: avondjapon (nl), avondjurk (nl)
• Estonian: õhtukleit (et)
• Finnish: juhlapuku (fi)
• French: robe de soirée f
• Hungarian: estélyi (hu)
• Icelandic: kvöldkjóll m
• Italian: abito da sera m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aftenkjole m, selskapskjole

  Nynorsk: selskapskjole

• Romanian: ținută de seară (ro) f
• Swedish: aftonklänning (sv) c
• Turkish: abiye (tr)
• Yiddish: אָוונטקלייד n (ovntkleyd)

formal attire for evenings

• Afrikaans: aandkostuum
• Finnish: frakki (fi) (men's); iltapuku (fi)