cloth

CEFRB1

/klɒθ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Material made by weaving or knitting threads.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.

Examples

  • I need a lot of cloth to make a long dress.

  • We are cut from the same cloth.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • /kloʊθ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.

  2. A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.

  3. Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.

More examples

In context

  • He is a respected man of the cloth.

  • Near-synonyms: (not always differentiated) fabric, material (fabric sense), textile; see also Thesaurus:fabric

  • In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English cloth, clath, from Old English clāþ (“cloth, clothes, covering, sail”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą (“garment”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gleyt- (“to cling to, cleave, stick”) (compare Albanian ngjit (“to stick, attach, glue”)), a form of *gleh₁y- (“to smear; to stick”). Cognate with Scots clath (“cloth”), North Frisian klaid (“dress, garment”), Saterland Frisian Klood (“dress, apparel”), West Frisian kleed (“cloth, article of clothing”), Dutch kleed (“robe, dress”), Low German kleed (“dress, garment”), German Kleid (“gown, dress”), Danish klæde (“cloth, dress”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk klede, Swedish kläde (“cloth”), Icelandic klæði (“cloth, dres...