outer garment

Questions about outer garment

What does outer garment mean?

outer garment means "a garment worn over other garments".

What is another word for outer garment?

Close synonyms include overgarment. 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 outer garment a common word?

outer garment 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.