clothes

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/kləʊ(ð)z/
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/kləʊ(ð)z/ · /kloʊ(ð)z/(US) · /klo(ð)z/ · /kloː(ð)z/ · /kləʊðz/(UK) · /kloʊðz/(US)

Definition of clothes

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (plural, plural-only)Items of clothing; apparel.
    “suit of clothes.”
    “Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.”
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noun

  1. (plural, plural-only)Items of clothing; apparel.
    “suit of clothes.”
    “Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.”
  2. (form-of, obsolete, plural, plural-only)plural of cloth.
  3. (plural, plural-only)The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
    “She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.”
  4. (plural, plural-only)Laundry (hung on a clothesline).

verb

  1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of clothe

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English clothes, cloþes, plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Danish klæder, Norwegian Bokmål klær, Norwegian Nynorsk klede, German Kleider.

Anagrams of clothes

2 plays · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from clothes

143 playable · top: CLOTHE (11 pts)

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8 words

5-letter words

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4-letter words

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3-letter words

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2-letter words

14 words

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