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clothes.

Items of clothing; apparel.

7 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/kləʊ(ð)z/Received-Pronunciation/kloʊ(ð)z/US/klo(ð)z/Scotland/kloː(ð)z/Wales

  1. Items of clothing; apparel.

    plural · plural-only

  2. plural of cloth.

    form-of · obsolete · plural · plural-only

  3. The covering of a bed; bedclothes.

    plural · plural-only

  4. Laundry (hung on a clothesline).

    plural · plural-only
Where this word comes from

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 (“clothes”), Faroese klæði, klæðir (“clothes”).

verb/kləʊðz/UK/kloʊðz/US

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of clothe

    form-of · indicative · present · singular · third-person
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