head covering

1. 1.

   a garment that covers the head and face

   Synonymsveil

   Broadergarment

   Narrowerchadorface veilyashmak

Questions about head covering

What does head covering mean?

head covering means "a garment that covers the head and face".

What is another word for head covering?

Close synonyms include veil. 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 head covering a common word?

head covering 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.