cotton
/ˈkɑt.n̩/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.35 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "K'a-shih has the most extensive cotton-growing area which amounted to 950 000 mou (6.3 million ares) in 1965."
- "Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet."
- "The little girls appeared, looking fresh and cool in pretty pink cottons, and we two elder ones seized the opportunity of making a more elaborate toilette than usual."
- "The old man wore the simplest cottons, faded from long use and countless washings."
- "Do not re-use needles; use fresh cottons each time."
- "Goddamned fools had cottoned the land, and just worked it to death, destroying the topsoil, so it blew away, and then, when the rains came, gullied it, so that it wasn't worth a damn for anything."
Etymology
From Middle English cotoun, from Anglo-Norman cotun, Old French coton, from (Genoese) Old Italian cotone, from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun), from Hebrew כֻּתֹּנֶת (kuttṓnĕṯ).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑt.n̩/
- British English: /ˈkɒt.n̩/