GARB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does garb mean? 

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

1. clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion

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

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

1. provide with clothes or put clothes on

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

attire; dress; garb

Context example:

battle dress

Hypernyms ("garb" 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 "garb"):

costume (the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball)

ao dai (the traditional dress of Vietnamese women consisting of a tunic with long sleeves and panels front and back; the tunic is worn over trousers)

activewear; athletic wear; sportswear (attire worn for sport or for casual wear)

getup; outfit; rig; turnout (a set of clothing (with accessories))

morning dress (formal attire for men during the daytime)

false hair; hairpiece; postiche (a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment)

habit; riding habit (attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire))

habit (a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order)

evening clothes; evening dress; eveningwear; formalwear (attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening)

finery (elaborate or showy attire and accessories)

ecclesiastical attire; ecclesiastical robe (attire that is appropriate to wear in a church)

disguise (any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity)

costume (the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments))

costume (unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place)

costume (the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class)

Derivation:

garb (provide with clothes or put clothes on)

• GARB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they garb    ... he / she / it garbs   
Past simple: garbed   
Past participle: garbed   
-ing form: garbing   

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 "garb" 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 "garb"):

gown (dress in a gown)

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

costume; dress up (dress in a costume)

coat (cover or provide with a coat)

shoe (furnish with shoes)

corset (dress with a corset)

underdress (dress without sufficient warmth)

overclothe; overdress (dress too warmly)

vesture (provide or cover with a cloak)

habit (put a habit on)

shirt (put a shirt on)

frock (put a frock on)

jacket (put a jacket on)

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

prim; prim out; prim up (dress primly)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

garb (clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion)

 Context examples 

An hour afterwards, Sherlock Holmes, in his usual garb and style, was seated in my private room at the hotel.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her body was more than the garb of her spirit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yes, fair son, but not so far as to bar you from the garb you now wear or the life which you must now lead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There could be no doubt as to his quest, and in my garb, too!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her garb was rustic, and her cheek pale; but there was an air of dignity and beauty, that hardly permitted the sentiment of pity.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Shrubs and vines were putting on fresh garbs of green.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I was glad to accept her hospitality; and I submitted to be relieved of my travelling garb just as passively as I used to let her undress me when a child.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These include static microisolator housing, handling animals with disinfected forceps, opening animal cages only in a hood, cage-by-cage testing and requiring that full barrier garb be worn by all persons entering animal rooms.

(Barrier Animal Facility Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Bankrupt, as he believed, alike in circumstances, in all other hope, and in honour, his sole reliance was upon the monster in the garb of man,—Mr. Micawber made a good deal of this, as a new turn of expression,—““who, by making himself necessary to him, had achieved his destruction. All this I undertake to show. Probably much more!””

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Young friend,” said he, when Alleyne was abreast of him, “I fear from thy garb that thou canst know little of the Abbey of Beaulieu.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)