sateen

1. 1.

   a cotton fabric with a satiny finish

   Broaderfabric

Other forms of sateen

plural

sateens·

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 sateen

What does sateen mean?

sateen means "a cotton fabric with a satiny finish".

How many syllables are in sateen?

sateen has 2 syllables: sa-teen. The stress falls on "sa".

Is sateen a common word?

sateen 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.