gown
a woman's dress or robe, especially one that is full-length.
a loose, flowing outer garment in any of various forms, worn by a man or woman as distinctive of office, profession, or status: an academic gown.
the student and teaching body in a university or college town.
to dress in a gown.
Origin of gown
1synonym study For gown
Other words for gown
Other words from gown
- un·gowned, adjective
Words Nearby gown
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How to use gown in a sentence
As masks, gloves, shields and gowns break down, they’ll produce a deluge of tiny plastics.
Unmasking the pandemic’s pollution problem | Stephen Ornes | January 28, 2021 | Science News For StudentsThe Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum has displayed high-school-graduation gowns and local restaurant menus, with the same seriousness and staging another museum would give a famous painting.
At Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum, a show on recent history that’s urgently of the moment | Kelsey Ables | January 27, 2021 | Washington PostThe Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals also helped her procure masks and gowns, as did one patient who ordered supplies from overseas.
Meet the nurse who’s running a Texas COVID-19 clinic all on her own | Tara Santora | January 4, 2021 | Popular-ScienceI did not have a single — really — I didn’t have a single N95 mask, surgical mask, isolation gown, nitrile glove.
“Those of Us Who Don’t Die Are Going to Quit”: A Crush of Patients, Dwindling Supplies and the Nurse Who Lost Hope | by J. David McSwane | December 30, 2020 | ProPublicaInstead of donning and removing protective masks, gowns and other gear many times a day, nurses spend their entire 12-hour shifts in protective equipment.
Inside a Rhode Island field hospital, preparing for the worst of the pandemic | Lenny Bernstein | December 26, 2020 | Washington Post
In April, the 19-year-old brunette in an emerald gown was crowned Miss Honduras.
Michelle Obama wore her first de la Renta gown this month, after he had criticized her fashion choices last year.
Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta, American Great, Dead at 82 | Tim Teeman | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe proceeded to personally change her gown and placed her in a wheelchair for the move.
While caring for patients, clinical staff is heavily robed with gown and apron; three pairs of gloves; a hood; and goggles.
Two Americans Have Now Been Diagnosed With Ebola in Record Outbreak | Kent Sepkowitz | July 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Fashion Icon winner lived up to her reputation in a sparkly, see-through, and utterly fabulous gown.
Rihanna Lights Up the CFDA Awards in Sparkly, See-Through Dress | Erin Cunningham | June 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat she had her definite reason he knew, as a woman knows when another woman is wearing a last year's gown.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensAnd then indeed he put on his night-gown, and went to Smithfield, the place where his relation dwelt.
She was in a soiled dressing gown of purple flannel, with several of the buttons off.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonShe wore a gown of white tulle upon whose floating surface were a few dark-blue lilies.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonHer head, set off by her dainty white gown, suggested a rich, rare blossom.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate Chopin
British Dictionary definitions for gown
/ (ɡaʊn) /
any of various outer garments, such as a woman's elegant or formal dress, a dressing robe, or a protective garment, esp one worn by surgeons during operations
a loose wide garment indicating status, such as worn by academics
the members of a university as opposed to the other residents of the university town: Compare town (def. 7)
(tr) to supply with or dress in a gown
Origin of gown
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with gown
see cap and gown; town and gown.
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