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gown

[ goun ]

noun

  1. a woman's dress or robe, especially one that is full-length.

    Synonyms: frock

  2. 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.

  3. the student and teaching body in a university or college town.


verb (used with object)

  1. to dress in a gown.

gown

/ ɡaʊn /

noun

  1. any of various outer garments, such as a woman's elegant or formal dress, a dressing robe, or a protective garment, esp one worn by surgeons during operations
  2. a loose wide garment indicating status, such as worn by academics
  3. See town
    the members of a university as opposed to the other residents of the university town Compare town


verb

  1. tr to supply with or dress in a gown

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Other Words From

  • un·gowned adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of gown1

1300–50; Middle English goune < Old French < Late Latin gunna fur or leather garment

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Word History and Origins

Origin of gown1

C14: from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna garment made of leather or fur, of Celtic origin

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Idioms and Phrases

see cap and gown ; town and gown .

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Synonym Study

See dress.

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Example Sentences

As masks, gloves, shields and gowns break down, they’ll produce a deluge of tiny plastics.

The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum has displayed high-school-graduation gowns and local restaurant menus, with the same seriousness and staging another museum would give a famous painting.

The Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals also helped her procure masks and gowns, as did one patient who ordered supplies from overseas.

I did not have a single — really — I didn’t have a single N95 mask, surgical mask, isolation gown, nitrile glove.

Instead of donning and removing protective masks, gowns and other gear many times a day, nurses spend their entire 12-hour shifts in protective equipment.

In April, the 19-year-old brunette in an emerald gown was crowned Miss Honduras.

Michelle Obama wore her first de la Renta gown this month, after he had criticized her fashion choices last year.

He proceeded to personally change her gown and placed her in a wheelchair for the move.

While caring for patients, clinical staff is heavily robed with gown and apron; three pairs of gloves; a hood; and goggles.

The Fashion Icon winner lived up to her reputation in a sparkly, see-through, and utterly fabulous gown.

That she had her definite reason he knew, as a woman knows when another woman is wearing a last year's gown.

And then indeed he put on his night-gown, and went to Smithfield, the place where his relation dwelt.

She was in a soiled dressing gown of purple flannel, with several of the buttons off.

She wore a gown of white tulle upon whose floating surface were a few dark-blue lilies.

Her head, set off by her dainty white gown, suggested a rich, rare blossom.

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