overcoat

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ coat.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəkəʊt/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvɚkoʊt/
Audio (US): (file)
Hyphenation: over‧coat

Noun

overcoat (plural overcoats)

A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
Hypernym: coat

Hyponyms: greatcoat, watchcoat, British warm, balmacaan, raglan

Coordinate term: overshoes
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
  Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
  ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
An outer coat, an outer coating (of paint, etc).
Antonyms: undercoat, basecoat

Hypernym: coat

Near-synonym: topcoat

Wait 24 hours before applying an overcoat.

Derived terms

Translations

garment

Arabic: مِعْطَف (ar) m (miʕṭaf)
Moroccan Arabic: كبوط (kabbūṭ)
Armenian: վերարկու (hy) (verarku), պալտո (hy) (palto)
Azerbaijani: palto (az)
Belarusian: паліто́ n (palitó)
Bulgarian: балтон m (balton), палто́ (bg) n (paltó)
Burmese: လောင်းကုတ်အင်္ကျီ (my) (laung:kut-angkyi)
Catalan: abric (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 外套 (zh) (wàitào), 大衣 (zh) (dàyī)
Czech: kabát (cs) m
Danish: frakke n, overfrakke c
Dutch: overjas (nl) f or m
Esperanto: palto, (plimalpli genulonga kaj kun butonoj) surtuto
Estonian: mantel (et)
Finnish: päällystakki (fi), palttoo (fi)
French: pardessus (fr) m, manteau (fr) m
Galician: abrigo (gl) m, gabán m
Georgian: პალტო (ṗalṭo)
German: Mantel (de)
Greek: πανωφόρι (el) n (panofóri), παλτό (el) n (paltó)
Hindi: ओवरकोट (hi) m (ovarkoṭ), लबादा (hi) m (labādā)
Hungarian: felöltő (hu)
Icelandic: yfirhöfn (is) f
Irish: cóta mór m, casóg mhór f
Italian: soprabito (it) m, cappotto (it) m
Japanese: オーバーコート (ja) (ōbākōto), 外套 (ja) (がいとう, gaitō)
Kazakh: пальто (palto)
Korean: 외투 (ko) (oetu)
Kyrgyz: пальто (palto)
Latvian: mētelis m
Lithuanian: paltas m
Macedonian: капут m (kaput)
Manx: cooat mooar m, cooat s'jerree m
Middle English: surcote
Mongolian: пальто (mn) (palʹto)
Navajo: éétsoh
Norman: grand' câsaque f, cache-mînséthe f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: frakk (no) m
Persian: پالتو (fa) (pâlto)
Piedmontese: chiri (pms)
Plautdietsch: Äwarock m
Polish: płaszcz (pl) m, palto (pl) n
Portuguese: sobretudo (pt) m
Romanian: pardesiu (ro) n, palton (ro) n
Russian: пальто́ (ru) n (palʹtó), шине́ль (ru) (šinɛ́lʹ) (military)
Rwanda-Rundi:
Kinyarwanda: ikote
Scottish Gaelic: còta-mòr m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: огртач m

Roman: ogrtač (sh) m
Slovak: kabát m
Slovene: plašč (sl) m
Spanish: abrigo (es) m
Swahili: dagla (sw)
Swedish: kappa (sv) c, överrock (sv) c, ytterrock (sv) c
Tagalog: gaban, hindaramit
Tajik: палто (palto)
Turkish: palto (tr)
Ukrainian: пальто́ (uk) n (palʹtó)
Uzbek: palʼto
Vietnamese: áo măng tô, áo choàng (vi)

Verb

overcoat (third-person singular simple present overcoats, present participle overcoating, simple past and past participle overcoated)

(transitive) To apply an exterior coating to.
Hypernym: coat

Hyponyms: overpaint, paint over

Coordinate terms: topcoat, clearcoat (often coinstantial)

Wait 24 hours before overcoating with either this product or a clearcoat.
- 2004, James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications, page 128:
  One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.

Related terms

overpaint, paint over

Anagrams

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