attire

See also: attiré

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Old French atirier (“to equip”), from a- + tire (“rank”), akin to German Zier (“ornament”) and Old Norse tírr (“glory, renown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Noun

attire (plural attires)

1. (clothing) One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.

   He was wearing his formal attire.

2. (heraldry) The single horn of a deer or stag.

Translations

one's dress or clothes

• Bulgarian: облекло (bg) (obleklo), премяна (bg) (premjana), одеяние (bg) (odejanie)
• Finnish: asu (fi)
• Galician: traxe (gl) m
• German: Anzug (de) m, Aufzug (de) m, Kleidung (de) f, Tracht (de) f
• Irish: gabháil m
• Italian: abbigliamento (it) m
• Korean: 의상 (ko) (uisang)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antrekk (no) n

  Nynorsk: antrekk n

• Pashto: كالي‎ m pl (kāli)
• Persian: جامه‎ (fa) (jâme)
• Polish: strój (pl) m, ubiór (pl) m
• Portuguese: traje (pt)
• Romanian: îmbrăcăminte (ro)
• Russian: оде́жда (ru) f (odéžda), фо́рма одежды (fórma odeždy), облаче́ние (ru) n (oblačénije), одея́ние (ru) n (odejánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: odjeća (sh), nošnja (sh)
• Spanish: atuendo (es) m, atavío (es) m
• Turkish: elbise (tr), esvap (tr), giysi (tr), kılık (tr), kıyafet (tr)

heraldry: single horn

• Finnish: sarvi (fi)

• Italian: palco (it) m

Verb

attire (third-person singular simple present attires, present participle attiring, simple past and past participle attired)

1. To dress or garb.

   We will attire him in fine clothing so he can make a good impression.

   He stood there, attired in his best clothes, waiting for applause.

Translations

to dress or garb

• Finnish: pukea (fi) (transitive), pukeutua (fi) (reflexive)
• German: anziehen (de), bekleiden (de), kleiden (de)
• Italian: indossare (it), portare (it)

• Russian: одева́ть (ru) (odevátʹ), одева́ться (ru) (odevátʹsja)
• Spanish: ataviar (es)
• Turkish: giyinmek (tr)

Anagrams

• aettir, ratite

---

French

Verb

attire

1. first-person singular present indicative of attirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of attirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of attirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of attirer
5. second-person singular imperative of attirer

Anagrams

• attéri, étirât, itérât, traite, traité