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- [wes-kuh t, weyst-koht]
- /ˈwɛs kət, ˈweɪstˌkoʊt/
- /ˈweɪs.kəʊt/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [wes-kuh t, weyst-koht]
- /ˈwɛs kət, ˈweɪstˌkoʊt/
Definitions of waistcoat word
- noun waistcoat Chiefly British. vest (def 1). 1
- noun waistcoat an 18th-century garment for women that is similar to a man's vest, usually worn with a riding habit. 1
- noun waistcoat a man's body garment, often quilted and embroidered and having sleeves, worn under the doublet in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1
- noun waistcoat A vest, especially one worn by men over a shirt and under a jacket. 1
- noun waistcoat sleeveless buttoned vest 1
- countable noun waistcoat A waistcoat is a sleeveless piece of clothing with buttons which people usually wear over a shirt. 0
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Origin of waistcoat
First appearance:
before 1510 One of the 26% oldest English words
First recorded in 1510-20; waist + coat
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Parts of speech for Waistcoat
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
waistcoat popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 71% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
waistcoat usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for waistcoat
noun waistcoat
- underwear — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
- balmoral — a laced walking shoe
- clothes — Clothes are the things that people wear, such as shirts, coats, trousers, and dresses.
- female — a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina, a uterus and ovaries, and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts, and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman.
- feminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
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