clothes

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Items of clothing; apparel.

   suit of clothes.

2. 2
   noun

   The covering of a bed; bedclothes.

   She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.

3. 3
   noun

   clothing in general

4. 4
   noun

   plural of cloth.

5. 5
   noun

   Laundry (hung on a clothesline).

6. 6
   verb

   third-person singular simple present indicative of clothe

Etymology

From Middle English clothes, cloþes, plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Danish klæder, Norwegian Bokmål klær, Norwegian Nynorsk klede, German Kleider.