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CIVILIAN DRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does civilian dress mean? 

CIVILIAN DRESS (noun)
  The noun CIVILIAN DRESS has 1 sense:

1. ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc.play

  Familiarity information: CIVILIAN DRESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CIVILIAN DRESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

civilian clothing; civilian dress; civilian garb; plain clothes

Hypernyms ("civilian dress" 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 "civilian dress"):

civies; civvies (civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform)

mufti (civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform)


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