silk hat

Questions about silk hat

What is another word for silk hat?

It depends which silk hat you mean. In the sense “a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur”, the synonyms are dress hat, high hat, opera hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper, beaver. Across all 1 sense there are 7 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 silk hat?

WordNet records no antonym for silk hat. 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 silk hat 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 silk hat

• Full entry for silk hatAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for silk hatWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.