Clothe
/ˈkləʊð/ verb
verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing. transitive
"to feed and clothe a family; to clothe oneself extravagantly"
- 2 provide with clothes or put clothes on wordnet
- 3 To cover or invest, as if with a garment. figuratively
"to clothe somebody with authority or power"
- 4 cover as if with clothing wordnet
- 5 furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors wordnet
Example
More examples"Those clothe with awe / the Senate; there they choose the judges for the law. / These delve the port; the broad foundations there / they lay for theatres of ample space, / and columns, hewn from marble rocks, prepare, / tall ornaments, the future stage to grace."
Etymology
From Middle English clothen, from Old English *clāþian (“to clothe”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþōną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to adhere to, stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleden, German kleiden, Swedish kläda, after apocope klä. See also cloth, clad.