terry towel

1. 1.

   a bath towel with rough loose pile

   SynonymsTurkish towel

   Broaderbath towel

Questions about terry towel

What does terry towel mean?

terry towel means "a bath towel with rough loose pile".

What is another word for terry towel?

Close synonyms include Turkish towel. 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 terry towel a common word?

terry towel 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.