Meaning of attire in English
(Definition of attire from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
attire | Intermediate English
attired
She was tastefully attired in a simple black dress.
Examples of attire
attire
The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower.
From Washington Post
Some also found all-black attire to be quite fetching.
From TIME
It's comfortable, but it might be the most unathletic attire ever created.
From Slate Magazine
Also, that meeting caused some players to spruce up their pregame and postgame attire.
From cleveland.com
We must concede that this is a big country with different expectations for proper attire.
From Dallas Morning News
Although there is no change in the dress code, we do support yesterday and today's cultural attire in the spirit of university and shared interests.
From ThinkProgress
If you don't have access to a professional headshot, use one where you look your best in proper business attire.
From Business Insider
He has ditched all traces of surfer attire for a more professorial combo of black jacket and dark blue sweater.
From Fast Company
While the details of the gowns evolve, the basics of bridal attire have stayed relatively the same over the years.
From TIME
She fared just fine in the standard team attire, however, winning three golds and a silver.
From Slate Magazine
Formal attire offered respectability in conservative times when she was the only woman among photographers.
From TIME
In the first experiment, nearly 60 participants looked at a series of photos of men who were similar in age and attire.
From TIME
Inside, the 10 international scenes feature characters dressed in their country's customary holiday attire.
From Los Angeles Times
Hours later, he's cleaned up, but still stands out in 21st century attire.
From New York Daily News
She wasn't dressed in the kind of business attire an interviewee might be expected to wear, even if casual is the usual work dress code.
From cleveland.com
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Collocations with attire
attire
These are words often used in combination with attire.
Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.
appropriate attire
For example, anxiety in my dreams is often associated with being lost (fear), with not having appropriate attire or credentials (anxiety), with being chased, or threatened (fear).
From the Cambridge English Corpus
business attire
And, like a football team, medical students are easily recognizable by their uniforms: the new and often ill-fitting business attire they don for the interview process.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
casual attire
In these photos, the young women are dressed in carefully chosen casual attire to avoid grubbiness at one end of the spectrum and overt sophistication at the other.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Translations of attire
in Turkish
in French
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
in Russian
giysi, kıyafet, elbise…
habillement, vêtir, parer (de)…
kledij, kleden…
oděv, obléci…
antræk, påklædning, klæde…
pakaian, berpakaian…
เครื่องแต่งกาย, แต่งกาย…
quần áo, mặc quần áo…
strój, odzienie, ubierać…
klädsel, skrud, kläda…
pakaian, berpakaian…
die Kleidung, kleiden…
antrekk, kle…
вбрання, одягати…
облачение…
