SWEATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweater mean? 

• SWEATER (noun)
  The noun SWEATER has 2 senses:

1. a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body

2. a person who perspires

  Familiarity information: SWEATER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

jumper; sweater

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

garment (an article of clothing)

Meronyms (parts of "sweater"):

neckband (a band around the collar of a garment)

neckline (the line formed by the edge of a garment around the neck)

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

cardigan (knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper)

pullover; slipover (a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head)

polo-neck; turtle; turtleneck (a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who perspires

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

perspirer; sweater

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

sweat (excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin)

 Context examples 

He lay where he had fallen, and from there he watched the man in the red sweater.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A pair of knee duck trousers and an old sweater made him a presentable wheel costume, so that he could go with Ruth on afternoon rides.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The man in the red sweater had proved that.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But the club of the man in the red sweater had beaten into him a more fundamental and primitive code.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Buck remembered the man in the red sweater, and retreated slowly; nor did he attempt to charge in when Sol-leks was once more brought forward.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Three hundred, and a present at that,” was the prompt reply of the man in the red sweater.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Now and again men came, strangers, who talked excitedly, wheedlingly, and in all kinds of fashions to the man in the red sweater.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A stout man, with a red sweater that sagged generously at the neck, came out and signed the book for the driver.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

As the days went by, other dogs came, in crates and at the ends of ropes, some docilely, and some raging and roaring as he had come; and, one and all, he watched them pass under the dominion of the man in the red sweater.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Then he was a masterful dog, and what made him dangerous was the fact that the club of the man in the red sweater had knocked all blind pluck and rashness out of his desire for mastery.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)