TROUSERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trousers mean? 

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

1. (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROUSERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pair of trousers; pant; trousers

Context example:

he had a sharp crease in his trousers

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

garment (an article of clothing)

Meronyms (parts of "trousers"):

leg (a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg)

lap; lap covering (the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs)

pant leg; trouser leg (the leg of a pair of trousers)

hip pocket (a pocket in rear of trousers)

seat (the cloth covering for the buttocks)

slide fastener; zip; zip fastener; zipper (a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab)

trouser (a garment (or part of a garment) designed for or relating to trousers)

trouser cuff (a cuff on the bottoms of trouser legs)

Domain usage:

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

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

pajama; pyjama (a pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries)

trews ((used in the plural) tight-fitting trousers; usually of tartan)

sweat pants; sweatpants (loose-fitting trousers with elastic cuffs; worn by athletes)

stretch pants (trousers made of a stretchy fabric)

slacks ((used in the plural) pants for casual wear)

short pants; shorts; trunks ((used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee)

salwar; shalwar (a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez))

pedal pushers; toreador pants ((used in the plural) snug trousers ending at the calves; worn by women and girls)

pantaloon (trousers worn in former times)

bell-bottoms; bellbottom pants; bellbottom trousers ((used in the plural) trousers with legs that flare; worn by sailors; absurdly wide hems were fashionable in the 1960s)

long pants; long trousers (trousers reaching to the foot)

jodhpur breeches; jodhpurs; riding breeches ((used in the plural) flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots)

blue jeans; denim; jeans ((used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear)

flannel; gabardine; tweed; white ((usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth)

cords; corduroys (cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth)

churidars (tight trousers worn by people from the Indian subcontinent (typically with a kameez or kurta))

chinos ((plural) trousers made with chino cloth)

breeches; knee breeches; knee pants; knickerbockers; knickers ((used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee)

 Context examples 

Another stride was in the direction of creased trousers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

By the fire stood a little fellow of three years old, in plaid frock and trousers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"He got me all right," he announced, pointing to the torn trousers and undercloths, and the growing stain of red.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have equalled.

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

He was dressed in a canvas jacket, and a pair of such very stiff trousers that they would have stood quite as well alone, without any legs in them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By the way, what was it you put into the wood-pile besides your old trousers? A dead dog, or rabbits, or what? You won’t tell? Dear me, how very unkind of you!

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

We found Holmes pacing up and down in the field, his chin sunk upon his breast, and his hands thrust into his trousers pockets.

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

Thermal paper receipts are easily identified by the customer since they are those receipts that, after some time, lose what they have printed on them and, when you are going to return the trousers you bought, the cashiers tell you that they cannot see anything.

(Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, University of Granada)

A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)