coat
pronunciation
How to pronounce coat in British English:
UK [kəʊt]
How to pronounce coat in American English:
US [koʊt]
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- Noun:
- an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors
- a thin layer covering something
- growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal
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- Verb:
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
- cover or provide with a coat
- form a coat over
Word Origin
- coat
- coat: [13] Coat seems originally to have signified a sort of short close-fitting cloth tunic with sleeves, worn by men. Over the centuries fashion has lengthened the garment, and its male exclusivity has disappeared (originally, as a woman’s garment a coat was a skirt, a sense preserved in petticoat). The word is of Germanic origin (it has been traced back to Frankish *kotta), but it reached English via Old French cote.
- coat (n.)
- early 14c., "outer garment," from Old French cote "coat, robe, tunic, overgarment," from Frankish *kotta "coarse cloth" or some other Germanic source (compare Old Saxon kot "woolen mantle," Old High German chozza "cloak of coarse wool," German Kotze "a coarse coat"), of unknown origin. Transferred to animal's natural covering late 14c. Extended 1660s to a layer of any substance covering any surface. Spanish, Portuguese cota, Italian cotta are Germanic loan-words.
- coat (v.)
- late 14c., "to provide with a coat," from coat (n.). Meaning "to cover with a substance" is from 1753. Related: Coated; coating.
Example
- 1. An ipad you could slip into a coat pocket ?
- 2. Don 't match cheap underwears with thousand cashmere coat .
- 3. I like to wear my red coat .
- 4. Feline coat patterns fall into two categories : stripes and spots .
- 5. He 's tall seemingly born into a black trench coat but thinner than he looks on television .