gown
a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,752 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,035 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions
- the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located the relations between town and gown are always sensitive
- lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women also: nightgown, nightie, night-robe, nightdress
- protective garment worn by surgeons during operations also: surgical gown, scrubs
- outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions also: robe
verb
- dress in a gown
gown in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Katherine stood there, holding her dressing gown about her with trembling hands.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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Her traveling dress lay on the bed--a plain dark silk--her only silk gown except the marriage one.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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And then he gave Minnie a gift also--a piece of very fine cloth to make herself a gown.
The Torch and Other Tales · Eden Phillpotts · Chapter 1
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From here one could not see his ugliness, and the dark claret color of his smoking-suit rather set off her gown.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 1
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Sat shaping for her bridal dress Her mother's wedding gown, When lo! the marshal, writ in hand, From Alford hill rode down.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1