coat rack

1. 1.

   a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats

   Synonymscoatrackhatrack

   Broaderrack

Questions about coat rack

What does coat rack mean?

coat rack means "a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats".

What is another word for coat rack?

Close synonyms include coatrack, hatrack. 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 coat rack a common word?

coat rack is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.