tights

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /taɪts/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /tɑjts/

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• (Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /tɑets/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /tʌɪts/
• Rhymes: -aɪts

Etymology 1

Opaque tights

From tight + -s.

Noun

tights pl (plural only)

1. A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet.

   Synonym: (US) pantyhose

2. (dance) A similar, non-sheer garment worn by dancers of either sex, especially by ballet dancers.
3. (wrestling) A garment, similar to briefs, worn chiefly by professional wrestlers.
4. (mining) In blasting rock, a piece of unbroken rock within the pay limit of a blast.

Usage notes

Sheer tights are often referred to as pantyhose in North American English, and as stockings in Philippine English, Australian English and New Zealand English.

Descendants

• → Danish: tights
• → German: Tights
• → Hebrew: טייץ (tayts)
• → Japanese: タイツ (taitsu)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: tights
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: tights
• → Swedish: tajts, tights
• → Welsh: teits

Translations

women's garment — see also pantyhose

• Bulgarian: чорапога́щи pl (čorapogášti), чорапога́щник m (čorapogáštnik)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 連褲襪 / 连裤袜 (lin⁴ fu³ mat⁶)

  Mandarin: 連褲襪 / 连裤袜 (zh) (liánkùwà)

• Czech: punčocháče (cs) f
• Danish: strømpebukse c
• Dutch: collant (nl)
• Esperanto: kalsonŝtrumpo
• Finnish: sukkahousut (fi) pl
• French: collant (fr) m
• German: Strumpfhose (de) f
• Hungarian: harisnyanadrág (hu), harisnya (hu)
• Icelandic: sokkabuxur (is) f pl
• Ido: kalzego (io)
• Irish: riteoga f pl
• Italian: collant (it) m
• Japanese: パンティストッキング (ja) (pantisutokkingu), タイツ (ja) (taitsu)
• Korean: 팬티 스타킹 (paenti seutaking), 타이츠 (taicheu)
• Luxembourgish: Collant m
• Macedonian: хулахо́пки f pl (hulahópki)
• Maltese: kalzetti pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strømpebukse (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: strømpebukse f

• Polish: rajstopy (pl) nvir pl
• Portuguese: meia-calça (pt) f, colãs m pl
• Romanian: colanți (ro) m pl, dres (ro) n
• Russian: колго́тки (ru) f pl (kolgótki)
• Scottish Gaelic: stocainnean f pl
• Spanish: panti (es) m or f, pantimedia (es) f
• Swedish: strumpbyxor (sv) c pl, tajts c pl
• Turkish: tayt (tr)
• Ukrainian: колго́тки f pl (kolhótky)
• Welsh: teits

dancer's garment

• Bulgarian: трико́ n (trikó)
• Dutch: collant (nl)
• Finnish: trikoot pl
• French: collant (fr) m
• Irish: riteoga f pl
• Italian: calzamaglia (it) f
• Macedonian: хела́нки f pl (helánki), трико́ n (trikó)
• Polish: trykot (pl) m
• Russian: колго́тки (ru) f pl (kolgótki), трико́ (ru) n (trikó)
• Scottish Gaelic: stocainnean f pl
• Spanish: malla (es) f
• Swedish: trikåer (sv) c pl

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tights

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tight

Anagrams

• stight

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English tights.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑɪts/

Noun

tights m (definite singular tightsen, indefinite plural tights or tightsar, definite plural tightsane)

1. tights

Synonyms

• strømpebukse

References

• “tights” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.