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noun
1.
a woman's dress or robe, especially one that is full-length.
5.
EXPANDa loose, flowing outer garment in any of various forms, worn by a man or woman as distinctive of office, profession, or status: an academic gown.
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COLLAPSEthe student and teaching body in a university or college town.
verb (used with object)
7.
to dress in a gown.
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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English goune < Old French < Late Latin gunna fur or leather garment
1300–50; Middle English goune < Old French < Late Latin gunna fur or leather garment
Related forms
un·gowned, adjective
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Word Origin & History
gown
c.1300, from O.Fr. goune, from L.L. gunna "leather garment, skin, hide," of unknown origin. Used by St. Boniface (8c.) for a fur garment permitted for old or infirm monks. Klein writes it is probably "a word adopted from a language of the Apennine or the Balkan Peninsula." OED points to Byzantine Gk.
EXPANDgouna, a word for a coarse garment sometimes made of skins. In 18c., gown was the common word for what is now usually styled a dress. It was maintained more in Amer.Eng. than in Britain, but was somewhat revived 20c. in fashion senses and in comb. forms (e.g. bridal gown, nightgown). Meaning "flowing robe worn as a badge of office or authority" is from late 14c., on image of the Roman toga. As collective singular for "residents of a university" (1650s) it is now usually opposed to town.
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gown (goun)
n.
A robe or smock worn in operating rooms and other parts of hospitals as a guard against contamination.
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