Clothes: Meaning, Types, and Usage Tips

Meaning 1：garments (clothes)

clothes 🔊

/kloʊðz/

Things you wear on your body, like shirts, pants, dresses, and jackets.

Clothes hanging in a modern closet with shirts and jeans

garments 🔊

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/ˈɡɑːrmənts/

Items such as shirts, pants, dresses, and jackets that are worn on the body for protection, modesty, or fashion.

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📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

Plural of cloth, from Old English 'clāþas' meaning garments.

💡 Mnemonic

Think of 'clothes' as 'close' to your body, covering you.

📖 Example

Before going out, she chose comfortable clothes from her closet. 🔊 Before going out, she chose comfortable clothes from her closet.

🔗 Collocations

change clothes – to replace one's current outfit with a different one

put on clothes – to dress oneself

take off clothes – to remove one's clothing

🔄 Synonyms

clothing (n.) – Garments collectively; what people wear.

attire (n.) – Clothing, especially of a particular kind.

garments (n.) – Items of clothing.

🚫 Antonyms

nudity (n.) – The state of being without clothes.

🌱 Derivatives

clothe (v.) – to dress or provide with clothes

clothing (n.) – items worn to cover the body

clad (adj.) – dressed or covered

📖 Cultural Story

Derived from Old English 'clāþ' (cloth), related to Dutch 'kleed' and German 'Kleid'. 'Clothes' is the common plural, distinct from the more formal 'clothing'.