evening clothes

Questions about evening clothes

What does evening clothes mean?

evening clothes means "attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening".

What is another word for evening clothes?

Close synonyms include formalwear, eveningwear, evening dress. 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 evening clothes a common word?

evening clothes 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.