evening dress

Questions about evening dress

What does evening dress mean?

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

What is another word for evening dress?

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

evening dress 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.