bathing suit

Questions about bathing suit

What does bathing suit mean?

bathing suit means "tight fitting garment worn for swimming".

What is another word for bathing suit?

Close synonyms include swimsuit, swimwear, swimming costume, bathing costume. 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 bathing suit a common word?

bathing suit 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.