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say it: gown
gown is a noun and verb meaning "a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions
the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located
“the relations between town and gown are always sensitive”
lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
protective garment worn by surgeons during operations
outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions
dress in a gown
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 gown 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.