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Meaning of clothes in English

clothes
noun [ plural ]
uk
/kləʊðz/ us
/kloʊðz/
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things such as dresses and trousers that you wear to cover, protect, or decorate your body:
wear smart clothes UK She usually wears smart clothes.
wear casual clothes She usually wears casual clothes.
put your clothes on I'm just putting my clothes on.
take your clothes off Take your clothes off and get in the bath.
designer clothes She only wore designer clothes.
a clothes shop
Synonyms
apparel
attire formal
clobber UK informal
clothing formal
dress
garb literary
gear (CLOTHES/EQUIPMENT) informal
raiment old use
threads informal old-fashioned
togs UK informal
wear (CLOTHES)
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(Definition of clothes from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

clothes | American Dictionary

clothes
plural noun
us
/kloʊz, kloʊðz/
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things you wear to cover your body and keep you warm, to be comfortable, or for the way they make you look:
I’ve got all these clothes that I never wear.
(Definition of clothes from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of clothes

clothes
Visual differentiation highlighted not just clothes but physical features.
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They were dressed in clothes provided by the authorities.
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The divan was the first room entered by bathers who would divest themselves of their clothes in dressing rooms or stalls.
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These usually exhibited manufactured goods, both local and imported, such as ready-made clothes, shoes, hats, crystal, leather goods or artistic crafts like photographs and pottery.
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They experienced their clothes and appearance as expressive, and closely linked to a sense of their own femininity.
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More often, they were not paid at all, just given poor quality rations and cast-off clothes.
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As long as she had something to eat, clothes to wear and somewhere to sleep, she did not consider herself to be poor.
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They dyed their hair and wrote slogans on their clothes and on city walls.
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Politically conservative, they stood up for small shopkeepers and artisans, distrusted advertising and preferred 'quality' to cheapness and darning to new clothes.
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First, human beings converge naturally into groups, and it is normal for such groups to be identified by characteristics such as clothes, behaviour, and language.
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They can mean, however, that it becomes increasingly difficult to remain part of mainstream culture with respect to clothes.
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He was confirming to himself in writing the diary that the clothes he had worn earlier had been appropriate to his social circumstances.
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There are not the same clues in relation to size that there are with children's clothes.
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After a rapid gaze at the other's clothes (to check for the minimum of respectability), a man would accept an invitation to drink.
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For a start, it indicates the broad scope of the rental trade in clothes which incorporated illicit as well as licit transactions.
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Collocations with clothes

clothes

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casual clothes
If you're not dressed up, if you're wearing very casual clothes, then you're going to treat everything very casually in a way.
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civilian clothes
He has become so disciplined; he does not wear civilian clothes anymore.
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clothes dryer
For comparison, a typical screen in a clothes dryer has a nylon 23x23 mesh screen.
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衣服，衣物…
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ropa, ropa [feminine]…
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roupa, roupas [feminine]…
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服, 服（ふく）…
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kıyafetler, giysiler, giyecekler…
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vêtements [masculine, plural], vètements…
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roba…
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உங்கள் உடலை மறைக்க, பாதுகாக்க அல்லது அலங்கரிக்க நீங்கள் அணியும் ஆடைகள் மற்றும் கால்சட்டை போன்றவை…
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कपड़े…
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કપડાં, પોશાક…
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tøj, sengetøj…
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kläder, sängkläder…
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baju, peralatan tempat tidur…
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die Kleider (pl.), die Wäsche…
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klær [neuter, plural], klær…
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لباس, کپڑے…
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одяг, постільна білизна…
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одежда…
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šaty, oděv, lůžkoviny…
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quần áo, bộ đồ chăn ga trải giường)…
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