raiment

Other forms of raiment

plural

raiments·

past tense

raimented·

present participle

raimenting·

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.

Questions about raiment

What does raiment mean?

raiment means "especially fine or decorative clothing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in raiment?

raiment has 2 syllables: rai-ment. The stress falls on "rai".

What is another word for raiment?

Close synonyms include array, regalia, dress, clothe, enclothe. 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 raiment a common word?

raiment 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.