Towel Definition

touəl
toweled, toweling, towelled, towelling, towels
noun
A piece of absorbent cloth or paper for wiping or drying things, or for drying oneself after washing or bathing.
A dish towel, a bath towel.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To wipe or dry with a towel.
Webster's New World
To dry oneself with a towel.
American Heritage
idiom
throw in the towel
  • to admit defeat
Webster's New World
towel off
  • to dry oneself, as after bathing
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Towel

Noun

Singular:
towel
Plural:
towels

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Origin of Towel

  • From Middle English towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille (“towel") (Modern French touaille), from Frankish *þwahila (“cloth"), from Proto-Germanic *þwahilō (“wash-cloth", literally, "something used for washing"), from Proto-Germanic *þwahanÄ… (“to wash"), from Proto-Indo-European *tÊ·ak- (“to bathe"). Cognate with Old High German dwahila (“towel") (Modern German dialectal Zwehle), Dutch dwaal (“towel"), dweil (“mop"), Old English þwÄ“an (“to wash").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English towaille from Old French toaille of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Towel Sentence Examples

  • She threw the towel on the counter.

  • Carmen picked up the towel and hung it on the rack.

  • A large bath towel was draped across his shoulder.

  • Sarah removed the towel from her hair and shook out her locks.

  • They wrapped that towel over my head!

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