academic gown

1. 1.

   a gown worn by academics or judges

   Synonymsacademic robejudge's robe

   Broadergown

   NarrowerGeneva gown

   Part ofacademic costume

Questions about academic gown

What does academic gown mean?

academic gown means "a gown worn by academics or judges".

What is another word for academic gown?

Close synonyms include academic robe, judge's robe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is academic gown a common word?

academic gown is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.