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gown
[ goun ]
noun
- a woman's dress or robe, especially one that is full-length.
Synonyms:
- a loose, flowing outer garment in any of various forms, worn by a man or woman as distinctive of office, profession, or status:
an academic gown.
- the student and teaching body in a university or college town.
verb (used with object)
- to dress in a gown.
gown
/ ɡʊ /
noun
- any of various outer garments, such as a woman's elegant or formal dress, a dressing robe, or a protective garment, esp one worn by surgeons during operations
- a loose wide garment indicating status, such as worn by academics
- the members of a university as opposed to the other residents of the university town Compare town
verb
- tr to supply with or dress in a gown
Other Word Forms
- ܲ·ǷɲԱ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of gown1
Word History and Origins
Origin of gown1
Idioms and Phrases
see cap and gown ; town and gown .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Abby remembers her mother's words as she waited in the clinic in a hospital gown, nervous about the impending operation.
He usually flew economy and preferred to wear the black gown of a priest - rather than the red and purple of his new position.
As María Zardoya stood atop a raised platform in a white gown, it began to snow on the Outdoor stage during the Marías’ set.
She paused, her long blond hair and frilly white gown rustling in the dry, dusty breeze.
She was also photographed in a white wedding gown surrounded by film crew for a scene believed to be her marriage to Heathcliff's rival, Edgar Linton.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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