attire

See also: attiré

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈtaɪɚ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Noun

attire (countable and uncountable, 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.
   • 1887, Miller Christy, The Trade Signs of Essex: A Popular Account of the Origin and Meanings of the Public House & Other Signs Now Or Formerly Found in the County of Essex, page 51:

     The latter sign, however, may have some heraldic significance, as Larwood and Hotten mention a London token of 1666 on which a horseshoe is represented within a pair of antlers or deer's attires.

Translations

one's dress or clothes

• Bulgarian: облекло (bg) (obleklo), премяна (bg) (premjana), одеяние (bg) (odejanie)
• Czech: úbor m, háv m, šat (cs) m
• Danish: beklædning c
• Finnish: asu (fi)
• Galician: traxe (gl) m
• German: Anzug (de) m, Aufzug (de) m, Kleidung (de) f, Tracht (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐσθής f (esthḗs)

• Irish: gabháil m
• Italian: abbigliamento (it) m
• Kazakh: киім (kk) (kiım)
• Korean: 의상 (ko) (uisang)
• Latin: vestītus m
• Maori: pakikau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antrekk (no) n

  Nynorsk: antrekk n

• Pashto: کالي‎ (ps) 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, 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
• Swedish: hjortdjurshorn n

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To clothe or adorn.

   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.

Synonyms

• dight, don, dress; see also Thesaurus:clothe

Translations

to dress or garb

• Danish: klæde
• 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

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

attire

1. inflection of attirer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• attéri, étirât, itérât, traite, traité