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# clad

«clad» in Mova's school dictionary: **Wearing a certain kind of clothes («clad in armour», «a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (clad); verb form (clad as an old past form of clothe; clad, clads, cladding — to cover a building)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal or literary) Wearing a certain kind of clothes («clad in armour», «a black-clad figure»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#m1)

2) Covered with a layer of some material («stone-clad», «ivy-clad»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#m2)

3) (building, verb) To cover a building's walls with a layer of material; the layer is called «cladding». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and poems it describes how people are dressed — «a knight clad in steel». In building and the news it describes walls covered with panels; the Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2017 led to rules about safe cladding. It tells the reader what someone or something is wrapped in. Often with «in»: «clad in».

### examples

- The knight was clad in shining armour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x1)
- A figure clad in black stood at the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x2)
- The hills were clad in snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x3)
- The house was clad in red brick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x4)
- Ivy-clad walls surrounded the old garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x5)
- Workers are replacing unsafe cladding on the tower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x6)
- The children came clad in wellies and raincoats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x7)
- He was a plump young fellow, clad in summer garments and wearing a straw hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/#x8)

### note

Mostly used as an adjective after a noun or in compounds (snow-clad, steel-clad). It sounds old-fashioned or literary in the sense «dressed»; everyday English says «dressed in». «Cladding» is the noun for the covering on a building.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clad» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clad/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.