bathrobe

«bathrobe» in Mova's school dictionary: A long, loose coat made of soft towelling or cotton, worn… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a bathrobe, bathrobes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A long, loose coat made of soft towelling or cotton, worn before or after a bath or shower. tree →

2) (US) Any dressing gown worn around the house. tree →

sense in the lessons

An everyday home word: people wear a bathrobe in the morning, at swimming pools and in hotels. In stories a character in a bathrobe is often just out of bed or relaxing. Phrases: a fluffy bathrobe, wrapped in a bathrobe.

examples

• Dad came downstairs in his bathrobe. tree →
• The hotel gave us white fluffy bathrobes. tree →
• She wrapped herself in a bathrobe after her shower. tree →
• Hang your bathrobe on the hook behind the door. tree →
• Grandpa answered the door in his bathrobe and slippers. tree →
• I got a bathrobe with a hood for my birthday. tree →

note

Countable: bathrobes. In the UK people often say «dressing gown»; «robe» is a shorter US word. One word, not «bath robe».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bathrobe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.