dress

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes

   a dress dinner

2. 2
   verb

   arrange attractively

   dress my hair for the wedding

3. 3
   verb

   dress or groom with elaborate care

   I likes to dress when going to the opera.

4. 4
   verb

   to attire with clothing in a certain manner

   They dress in the latest Paris fashion.

5. 5
   verb

   put on clothes

   we had to dress quickly

6. 6
   verb

   provide with clothes or put clothes on

   Parents must feed and dress their child

7. 7
   verb

   apply a bandage or medication to

   dress the victim's wounds

8. 8
   verb

   convert into leather

   dress the tanned skins

Etymology

PIE word *dwís The verb is from Middle English dressen, dresse (“to arrange, put in order”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French dresser, drecier (modern French dresser), from Late Latin *dīrēctiāre (“to guide, direct”), from Classical Latin dīrēctus, whence English direct. Further akin to Latin regō. The noun is derived from the verb. Compare typologically adorn (<< Latin ōrnō < ōrdō, whence also ōrdinō, English order, ornament); Russian наряжа́ть (narjažátʹ), наря́д (narjád) (akin to ряд (rjad), поря́док (porjádok)).