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clothes

noun US /kloʊðz/

clothing in general

How often you will meet it

Rank 816 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 22,336 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.011% of every word in the library.

It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.

What it means

noun

  1. clothing in general also: apparel, wearing apparel, dress she was refined in her choice of apparelhe always bought his clothes at the same store

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

clothes in real books

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  • Hordes of men of all ages, in startling clothes, appear in all quarters.

    The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1

  • As they moved to the centre of the open space Graham indicated Bobby's evening clothes.

    The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1

  • My clothes after some time will be worn out; and then I shall have none to cover me.

    The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1

  • And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

    The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1

  • The load tore a part of his clothes from his body, one shot going through his arm and entering his breast.

    The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1

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