garment

English

Etymology

From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from garnir (“to garnish, adorn, fortify”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] . More at garnish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑɹ.mənt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.mənt/
• Hyphenation: gar‧ment

Noun

garment (plural garments)

1. A single item of clothing.
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     This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

Derived terms

• foundation garment
• touch the hem of someone's garment

Related terms

• garnish
• garrison

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

Translations

single item of clothing

• Arabic: لِبَاس (ar) m (libās), مَلَابِس m pl (malābis), ثَوْب (ṯawb)

  Egyptian Arabic: هدمة f (hedma), هدوم f pl (heduum)

• Armenian: շոր (hy) (šor)
• Aromanian: vishtimintu n, nviscãmindu n, stranj n, stranjiu n, alãxãmintu n, stoli, custumi
• Asturian: prenda f
• Bulgarian: дреха (bg) f (dreha), одежда (bg) f (odežda)
• Central Sierra Miwok: ˀyká·py-
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衣服 (zh), 服装 (zh) (fúzhuāng)

• Czech: oděv (cs) m
• Dalmatian: vestemiant
• Dutch: kledingstuk (nl) n
• Esperanto: vesto (eo), vestaĵo (eo)
• Finnish: vaate (fi), vaatekappale (fi), pukine (fi)
• French: vêtement (fr) m
• Galician: vestido m, peza (gl) f, roupa (gl) f
• Georgian: ტანსაცმელი (ṭansacmeli), ტანისამოსი (ṭanisamosi), სამოსი (samosi), სამოსელი (samoseli)
• German: Kleidungsstück (de) n
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 f (wasti)
• Greek: ρούχο (el) n (roúcho)

  Ancient: ἱμάτιον n (himátion)

• Hebrew: מד (he) (máhd), בגד (he) (bégéd)
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• Hungarian: ruha (hu), öltözet (hu)
• Icelandic: flík (is) f, spjör f
• Ido: vesto (io)
• Italian: vestito (it) m, indumento (it) m, capo (it) m, abito (it) m
• Latin: vestis f, vestimentum n
• Maori: weru, pakikau, kākahu, kowheka, kōwhekawheka, whekawheka, mai, ko(w)heka
• Navajo: ééʼ
• Ngazidja Comorian: nguo class 9/10
• Norwegian: plagg (no) n, klesplagg (no) n
• Old English: hræġl n, wǣd f
• Persian: جامه (fa) (jâme)
• Plautdietsch: Kjleet n
• Polish: ubranie (pl) n
• Portuguese: roupa (pt) f, veste (pt) f, indumento (pt) m
• Romanian: rufe (ro) f pl, haină (ro), veșmânt (ro), articol de îmbrăcăminte n
• Russian: предме́т одежды m (predmét odeždy)
• Serbo-Croatian: ruho (sh) n
• Spanish: prenda (es) f
• Swahili: nguo (sw) class 9/10
• Swedish: klädesplagg (sv) n, plagg (sv) n
• Telugu: వస్త్రము (te) (vastramu) బట్ట
• Westrobothnian:

Verb

garment (third-person singular simple present garments, present participle garmenting, simple past and past participle garmented)

1. (transitive) To clothe in a garment.

Further reading

• “garment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “garment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “garment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• margent