Clothing Definition

klōthĭng

noun

Wearing apparel; clothes; garments.

Webster's New World

A covering.

Webster's New World

Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.

Wiktionary

A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.

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verb

Present participle of clothe.

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Other Word Forms of Clothing

Noun

Singular:

clothing

Plural:

clothings

Origin of Clothing

From Middle English clothing, clathing, clething (whence also the dialectal English term cleading), equivalent to clothe +‎ -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dress”). Compare also cladding.

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