different between garment vs nightie
garment
English
Etymology
From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from garnir (“to garnish, adorn, fortify”), from Frankish. More at garnish.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /????.m?nt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????.m?nt/
- Hyphenation: gar?ment
Noun
garment (plural garments)
- A single item of clothing.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
- (Mormonism) Short for temple garment.
Derived terms
- foundation garment
- touch the hem of someone's garment
Related terms
- garnish
- garrison
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:clothing
Translations
Verb
garment (third-person singular simple present garments, present participle garmenting, simple past and past participle garmented)
- (transitive) To clothe in a garment.
Translations
Further reading
- garment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- garment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- garment at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- margent
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nightie
English
Alternative forms
- nighty
Etymology
night +? -ie
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?na?ti/
- Rhymes: -a?ti
Noun
nightie (plural nighties)
- (informal) A woman's nightgown or nightdress for wearing to bed.
- I was too embarrassed to answer the door in my nightie.
Derived terms
- off like a bride's nightie
Translations
See also
- lingerie
- negligee
Anagrams
- Hignite, thingie
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