CLOTHES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clothes mean? 

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

1. clothing in general

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOTHES (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 ("clothes" 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 "clothes"):

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

Domain usage:

plural (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

I put back the clothes from my face, and found, to my surprise, that all was dim around.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Have you any dry clothes I may put on?” I asked the cook.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“You, Ashputtel!” said she; “you who have nothing to wear, no clothes at all, and who cannot even dance—you want to go to the ball?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Hunter was steady, that we knew; Joyce was a doubtful case—a pleasant, polite man for a valet and to brush one's clothes, but not entirely fitted for a man of war.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I take off my ring, I wear my worst clothes, I use no bear's grease, and I frequently lament over the late Miss Larkins's faded flower.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Buy new clothes and visit your stylist at the salon for suggestions about a new look, and you will welcome the new season ready for fun and love.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She was clad in her dress—he in his dressing-gown, over his night-clothes.

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

The act of putting on clothes.

(Dressing, NCI Thesaurus)