clothing

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
  2. verb provide with clothes or put clothes on
  3. verb furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

Etymology

From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe + -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding.

In classic literature

Synonyms

article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment

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