Carpet

/ˈkɑː.pɪt/ · noun

Meaning

A fabric used as a complete floor covering..

Definitions by Sense

1. A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
2. (figuratively) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
3. Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae
4. (obsolete) A wrought cover for tables.
5. (slang, vulgar) A woman's pubic hair.
6. To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
7. (transitive) To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
8. (UK) To reprimand.

Example Sentences

A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

The railways are anxious to refurbish their stations and rolling stock when they can get labour and materials, although it is unlikely that they contemplate deep carpets in wayside waiting rooms. Lack of carpets at present is not confined to railways, and roaring fires in the present fuel scarcity would probably be considered anti-social in wayside waiting rooms.

The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

the grassy carpet of this plain

Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.

Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.

After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.

The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.

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• carpets
• carpeting
• carpeted

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