gown

[ goun ]

/ gaʊn /

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noun

a woman's dress or robe, especially one that is full-length.

nightgown.

dressing gown.

evening gown.

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.

verb (used with object)

to dress in a gown.

OTHER WORDS FOR gown

1 frock.

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Origin of gown

1300–50; Middle English goune<Old French <Late Latin gunna fur or leather garment

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1. See dress.

OTHER WORDS FROM gown

un·gowned, adjective

Words nearby gown

go without, go without saying, go with the flow, gowk, gowl, gown, gownsman, go wrong, gox, goy, Goya

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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 Students
The 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 Post
The 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-Science
I 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|ProPublica

Instead 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.
The Shocking Death of Miss Honduras|Romina Ruiz-Goiriena|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
He proceeded to personally change her gown and placed her in a wheelchair for the move.
How Bureaucrats Let Ebola Spread to Nigeria|Michael Daly|August 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
The 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|DAILY BEAST
That she had her definite reason he knew, as a woman knows when another woman is wearing a last year's gown.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
And then indeed he put on his night-gown, and went to Smithfield, the place where his relation dwelt.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
She was in a soiled dressing gown of purple flannel, with several of the buttons off.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
She wore a gown of white tulle upon whose floating surface were a few dark-blue lilies.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Her 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

gown

/ (ɡaʊn) /

noun

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 townCompare town (def. 7)

verb

(tr) to supply with or dress in a gown

Word Origin for gown

C14: from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna garment made of leather or fur, of Celtic origin

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