have on

1. 1.

   be dressed in

   “She was wearing yellow that day”

   Synonymswear

Questions about have on

What does have on mean?

have on means "be dressed in".

What is another word for have on?

Close synonyms include wear. 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 have on a common word?

have on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.