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): /ˈɡɑɹ.mənt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.mənt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: gar‧ment

Noun

garment (plural garments)

1. A single item of clothing.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

2. (figurative) The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied.
   • 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 241:

     The highest state in which the soul completely casts away its garment of flesh and becomes a disembodied spirit.

3. (Mormonism) Short for temple garment.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

Derived terms

• constant-wear garment
• foundation garment
• garment bag
• kiss the hem of someone's garment
• lower garment
• outer garment
• rend one's garments
• touch the hem of someone's garment
• undergarment
• upper garment

 

Related terms

• garnish
• garrison

Translations

single item of clothing

• Albanian: petk (sq)
• Arabic: لِبَاس (ar) m (libās), مَلَابِس m pl (malābis), ثَوْب (ṯawb)

  Egyptian Arabic: هدمة f (hedma), هدوم f pl (hedūm)

• Armenian: շոր (hy) (šor)
• Aromanian: vishtimintu n, nviscãmindu n, stranj n, stranjiu n, alãxãmintu n, stoli, custumi
• Asturian: prenda f
• Azerbaijani: paltar (az), geyim (az)
• Bulgarian: дре́ха (bg) f (dréha), оде́жда (bg) f (odéžda) (clothing, clothes)
• Catalan: peça (ca) f
• Central Sierra Miwok: ˀyká·py-
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衣服 (zh), 服装 (zh) (fúzhuāng)

• Czech: oděv (cs) m
• Dalmatian: vestemiant
• Dutch: kledingstuk (nl) n
• Egyptian: (mnḫt), (ḥbs m)
• Esperanto: vesto (eo), vestaĵo (eo)
• Estonian: riie, rõivas
• Finnish: vaate (fi), vaatekappale (fi)
• French: vêtement (fr) m
• Galician: vestido m, peza (gl) f, roupa (gl) f, fatelo m
• Georgian: ტანსაცმელი (ṭansacmeli), ტანისამოსი (ṭanisamosi), სამოსი (ka) (samosi), სამოსელი (ka) (samoseli)
• German: Kleidungsstück (de) n
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 f (wasti)
• Greek: ρούχο (el) n (roúcho)

  Ancient: ἱμάτιον n (himátion)

• Hebrew: מד (he) (máhd), בגד (he) (bégéd)
• Hungarian: ruha (hu), öltözet (hu)
• Icelandic: flík (is) f, spjör f
• Ido: vesto (io)
• Italian: vestito (it) m, indumento (it) m, capo (it) m, abito (it) m
• Latin: vestīmentum n, indūmentum n
• Macedonian: а́лиште n (álište)
• Maori: weru, pakikau, kākahu, kowheka, kōwhekawheka, whekawheka, mai, ko(w)heka
• Maranao: ba'ag, salombagay
• Middle English: garnement
• Navajo: ééʼ
• Ngazidja Comorian: nguo class 9/10
• Norwegian: plagg (no) n, klesplagg (no) n
• Old English: hræġl n, wǣd f
• Persian: جامه (fa) (jâme)
• Plautdietsch: Kjleet n
• Polish: ubranie (pl) n
• Portuguese: peça de roupa f, roupa (pt) f, veste (pt) f, indumento (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਜਾਮਾ m (jāmā)
• Romani: gad m
• Romanian: rufe (ro) f pl, haină (ro), veșmânt (ro), articol de îmbrăcăminte n
• Russian: предме́т одежды m (predmét odeždy), оде́жда (ru) f (odéžda) (clothing, clothes)
• Sanskrit: वस्मन् (sa) n (vasman), वस्त्र (sa) m (vastra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ру̏хо n

  Roman: rȕho (sh) n

• Spanish: prenda (es) f, prenda de vestir f, pilcha (es) f (South America)
• Swahili: nguo (sw) class 9/10, vazi (sw)
• Swedish: klädesplagg (sv) n, plagg (sv) n, persedel (sv) c
• Telugu: వస్త్రము (te) (vastramu), బట్ట (te) (baṭṭa)
• Tocharian B: wastsi
• Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎁𐎌 (lbš)
• Welsh: dilledyn (cy) m

Mormonism: temple garment — see temple garment

Verb

garment (third-person singular simple present garments, present participle garmenting, simple past and past participle garmented)

1. (transitive) To clothe in a garment.

Translations

to clothe in a garment

• Finnish: pukea ylleen, pukeutua johonkin

Further reading

• “garment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “garment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “garment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• margent

Middle English

Noun

garment

1. Alternative form of garnement