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Clothes

//kloʊ(ð)z// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Items of clothing; apparel. plural, plural-only

    "suit of clothes."

  2. 2
    clothing in general wordnet
  3. 3
    plural of cloth. form-of, obsolete, plural, plural-only
  4. 4
    The covering of a bed; bedclothes. plural, plural-only

    "She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes."

  5. 5
    Laundry (hung on a clothesline). plural, plural-only
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of clothe form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”), Danish klæder, Norwegian Bokmål klær, Norwegian Nynorsk klede, German Kleider.

Etymology 2

From clothe + -s.

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