APPAREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apparel mean? 

• APPAREL (noun)
  The noun APPAREL has 1 sense:

1. clothing in general

  Familiarity information: APPAREL used as a noun is very rare.

• APPAREL (verb)
  The verb APPAREL has 1 sense:

1. provide with clothes or put clothes on

  Familiarity information: APPAREL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPAREL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clothing in general

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

apparel; clothes; dress; wearing apparel

Context example:

fastidious about his dress

Hypernyms ("apparel" is a kind of...):

article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apparel"):

workwear (heavy-duty clothes for manual or physical work)

Derivation:

apparel (provide with clothes or put clothes on)

• APPAREL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they apparel    ... he / she / it apparels   
Past simple: appareled    / apparelled   
Past participle: appareled    / apparelled   
-ing form: appareling    / apparelling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with clothes or put clothes on

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garb; garment; habilitate; raiment; tog

Context example:

Parents must feed and dress their child

Hypernyms (to "apparel" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

dress; get dressed (put on clothes)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "apparel"):

prim; prim out; prim up (dress primly)

cover; wrap up (clothe, as if for protection from the elements)

jacket (put a jacket on)

frock (put a frock on)

shirt (put a shirt on)

habit (put a habit on)

vesture (provide or cover with a cloak)

overclothe; overdress (dress too warmly)

underdress (dress without sufficient warmth)

corset (dress with a corset)

shoe (furnish with shoes)

coat (cover or provide with a coat)

costume; dress up (dress in a costume)

robe; vest (clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes)

gown (dress in a gown)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

apparel (clothing in general)

 Context examples 

She appealed to everybody and to everything, finally wiping her eyes and proceeding to cast out even articles of apparel that were imperative necessaries.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

One of the footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, believing her to be with the company.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But my chief delights were the sight of the flowers, the birds, and all the gay apparel of summer; when those deserted me, I turned with more attention towards the cottagers.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When the ladies were separating for the toilette, he said to Elizabeth—Do not make yourself uneasy, my dear cousin, about your apparel.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Only my damp and bemired apparel; in which I had slept on the ground and fallen in the marsh.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Lady Loring rode her palfrey at her lord's bridle-arm, for she would see him as far as the edge of the forest, and ever and anon she turned her hard-lined face up wistfully to him and ran a questioning eye over his apparel and appointments.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had no second-best suit that was presentable, and though he could go to the butcher and the baker, and even on occasion to his sister's, it was beyond all daring to dream of entering the Morse home so disreputably apparelled.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I shut the closet to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o'clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

During this interval, one of the servants, happening to examine the apparel she had worn on the night of the murder, had discovered in her pocket the picture of my mother, which had been judged to be the temptation of the murderer.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

However, to please her, I allowed Sophie to apparel her in one of her short, full muslin frocks.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)