carpet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet

   a carpet of flowers

2. 2
   verb

   to cover with a carpet

   carpet the floors of the house

3. 3
   verb

   to cover completely, as if with a carpet

   flowers carpeted the meadows

4. 4
   verb

   to form a carpet-like cover over

   The forest floor was carpeted with fallen leaves.

5. 5
   noun

   A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

   A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

6. 6
   noun

   Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

   the grassy carpet of this plain

7. 7
   noun

   A wrought cover for tables.

   Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.

8. 8
   verb

   To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

   After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.

Etymology

From late Middle English carpette, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita or Italian carpita, introduced in the 13th century by the Florentines from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, from Middle Armenian կարպետ (karpet, “carpet, rug”), earlier կապերտ (kapert).