trousers
Americannoun
-
Also called pants. Sometimes a usually loose-fitting outer garment for the lower part of the body, having individual leg portions that reach typically to the ankle but sometimes to any of various other points from the upper leg down.
plural noun
-
a garment shaped to cover the body from the waist to the ankles or knees with separate tube-shaped sections for both legs
-
US equivalent: wear the pants. informal to have control, esp in a marriage
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Etymology
Origin of trousers
1585–95; trouse (variant of trews ) + (draw)ers (in the sense “undergarment with legs”)
Compare meaning
How does trousers compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“You learn the essence of hard work out here,” he said while knocking rice on a recent afternoon, with duct tape over his trousers’ hem and shoes so not a grain would be wasted.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2022
On Twitter people accused the label of double standards and questioned the trousers' high price tag.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2021
They were married in the music room of the bride's home, the bridegroom in a crisp white lieutenant's uniform, which he refused to sit down in for fear of ruining the trousers' perfect crease.
From Time Magazine Archive
On parade grounds all over Germany last week squads stood stiffly at attention, hands slapped to trousers' seams.
From Time Magazine Archive
He planted himself squarely in front of her, thrust his hands in his trousers' pockets, and gnawed the ends of his moustache.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
