full dress

Questions about full dress

What does full dress mean?

full dress means "formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men".

What is another word for full dress?

Close synonyms include dress suit, tailcoat, tail coat, tails, white tie. 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 full dress a common word?

full 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.