garment
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from garnir (“to garnish, adorn, fortify”), from Frankish. More at garnish.
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑɹ.mənt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑː.mənt/
- Hyphenation: gar‧ment
NounEdit
garment (plural garments)
- A single item of clothing.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
- (figurative) The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied.
- 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 241:
- The highest state in which the soul completely casts away its garment of flesh and becomes a disembodied spirit.
- (Mormonism) Short for temple garment.
HyponymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:clothing
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TranslationsEdit
single item of clothing
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Mormonism: temple garment — see temple garment
VerbEdit
garment (third-person singular simple present garments, present participle garmenting, simple past and past participle garmented)
- (transitive) To clothe in a garment.
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Further readingEdit
- garment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- garment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- garment at OneLook Dictionary Search
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
garment
- Alternative form of garnement