Clothes

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /kləʊz/, /kləʊðz/,
• GenAm IPA: /kloÊŠz/, /kloʊðz/,
• Homophones: close
• Rhymes: -əʊz, -əʊðz

Middle English cloþes

Noun

plural

1. (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
• 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 6, Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
2. (obsolete) Plural of cloth.
3. The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
• PriorShe turned each way her frighted head,
  Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.

Derived terms

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /kləʊðz/,
• GenAm IPA: /kloʊðz/,
• Rhymes: -əʊðz

clothe + -s

Verb

1. clothes

   (third-person singular of clothe)