peplus

Questions about peplus

What is another word for peplus?

It depends which peplus you mean. In the sense “a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist”, the synonyms are peplos, peplum. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of peplus?

WordNet records no antonym for peplus. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for peplus come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of peplus

• Full entry for peplusAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for peplusWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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