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say it: FA-brik
fabric is a noun meaning "artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers". It is pronounced /ˈfæbɹɪk/ — FA-brik. It carries 2 recorded senses.
artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
“the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent”
“woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC”
“she measured off enough material for a dress”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fabric come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.