Garb
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɡɑː(ɹ)b/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Garb is a noun meaning Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
Meaning
Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
More Meanings
- A type of dress or clothing.
- (figurative) A guise, external appearance.
- (transitive) To dress in garb.
- (heraldry) A wheatsheaf.
- A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
Example Sentences
Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.
You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
Word Forms
- garbs
- garbing
- garbed
Synonyms for garb
Depending on context, synonyms include habit, habilitate, apparel, raiment, garment, dress.
Antonyms for garb
Common opposites include strip, disrobe, undress, discase, unclothe, uncase.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include attire, dress, clothe, raiment, garment, apparel.
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