garment

1. 1.

   provide with clothes or put clothes on

   “Parents must feed and dress their child”

   Synonymsdressclotheenclothegarbraimenttoghabilitatefit outapparel

   Broaderchange state

   Narrowerprimcoverjacketfrockshirthabitvestureoverdressunderdresscorset

Other forms of garment

plural

garments·

past tense

garmented·

present participle

garmenting·

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.

Questions about garment

What does garment mean?

garment means "an article of clothing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in garment?

garment has 2 syllables: gar-ment. The stress falls on "gar". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑɹmənt/.

What is another word for garment?

Close synonyms include dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment. 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 garment a common word?

garment is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with garment?

1 word rhymes with garment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.