imitation leather

1. 1.

   fabric made to look like leather

   Synonymsleatherette

   Broaderfabric

Questions about imitation leather

What does imitation leather mean?

imitation leather means "fabric made to look like leather".

What is another word for imitation leather?

Close synonyms include leatherette. 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 imitation leather a common word?

imitation leather 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.