clothes
/kloʊ(ð)z/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.72 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
noun
Laundry (hung on a clothesline).
Example Sentences
- "suit of clothes."
- "Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white."
- "She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes."
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 (“clothes”), Faroese klæði, klæðir (“clothes”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kloʊ(ð)z/
- British English: /kləʊ(ð)z/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
Homonyms
cloze
close stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn