evening gown

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   a gown for evening wear

   Synonymsdinner dressdinner gownformal

   Broadergownformalwear

Questions about evening gown

What does evening gown mean?

evening gown means "a gown for evening wear".

What is another word for evening gown?

Close synonyms include dinner dress, dinner gown, formal. 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 gown a common word?

evening 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.