gown
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gown 
[goun] Pronunciation Key
[goun] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | a woman's dress or robe, esp. one that is full-length. |
| 2. | nightgown. |
| 3. | dressing gown. |
| 4. | evening gown. |
| 5. | a 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. |
| 6. | the student and teaching body in a university or college town. |
| 7. | to dress in a gown. |
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| gown
(goun) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. gowned, gown·ing, gowns v. tr. To clothe (oneself or another) with a gown. v. intr. To dress in a gown. [Middle English goune, from Old French, from Late Latin gunna, leather garment.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
gown
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." O.E.D. points to Byzantine Gk. gouna, 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 1377, on image of the Roman toga. As collective singular for "residents of a university" (1659) it is now usually opposed to town.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| gown | |
noun | |
| 1. | a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions |
| 2. | the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located; "the relations between town and gown are always sensitive" |
| 3. | lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women [syn: nightgown] |
| 4. | protective garment worn by surgeons during operations |
| 5. | outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions |
verb | |
| 1. | dress in a gown |
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Gown
Gown\, n. [OE. goune, prob. from W. gwn gown, loose robe, akin to Ir. gunn, Gael. g[`u]n; cf. OF. gone, prob. of the same origin.]1. A loose, flowing upper garment; especially: (a) The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown. (b) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military. He Mars deposed, and arms to gowns made yield. --Dryden. (c) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown. 2. Any sort of dress or garb. He comes . . . in the gown of humility. --Shak.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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