Word a Day
cloth
What does cloth mean?
cloth (noun): artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce cloth?
/klɔθ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does cloth come from?
From Middle English cloth, clath, from Old English clāþ (“cloth, clothes, covering, sail”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of cloth?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “cloth”?
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What does “cloth” mean?
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
Not quite: that's what color means.
a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it
Not quite: that's what payment means.
artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
Right! That's what “cloth” means.
a disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death
Not quite: that's what ghost means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “cloth”?
fabric
Right!
school
Not quite: school means something else.
season
Not quite: season means something else.
number
Not quite: number means something else.
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