garment

«garment» in Mova's school dictionary: a piece of clothing, such as a shirt, dress, coat or pair… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a garment, garments)

meaning for a pupil

1) A garment is a piece of clothing, such as a shirt, dress, coat or pair of trousers. tree →

2) Used in shops, factories and labels as a formal word for clothes. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in formal writing, labels («wash this garment inside out»), shops and history. Phrases: «a garment factory», «outer garment», «garment care». It tells the reader about an item of clothing.

examples

• Check the label before washing the garment. tree →
• The factory makes garments for many shops. tree →
• A cloak was a common garment long ago. tree →
• Hang wet garments on the line to dry. tree →
• This garment should be dry-cleaned. tree →
• She sewed a new garment for her doll. tree →
• The child's short garment reached only to her knee. tree →

note

Countable: a garment, garments. More formal than «clothes» or «piece of clothing». Labels use it a lot.

In the corpora

• And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
• And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
• And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
• And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
• And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

Trees and pragmatics

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