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# garment

«garment» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of clothing, such as a shirt, dress, coat or pair…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a garment, garments)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A garment is a piece of clothing, such as a shirt, dress, coat or pair of trousers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garment/#m1)

2) Used in shops, factories and labels as a formal word for clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garment/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in formal writing, labels («wash this garment inside out»), shops and history. Phrases: «a garment factory», «outer garment», «garment care». It tells the reader about an item of clothing.

### examples

- Check the label before washing the garment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garment/#x1)
- The factory makes garments for many shops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garment/#x2)
- A cloak was a common garment long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garment/#x3)
- Hang wet garments on the line to dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garment/#x4)
- This garment should be dry-cleaned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garment/#x5)
- She sewed a new garment for her doll. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garment/#x6)
- The child's short garment reached only to her knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garment/#x7)

### note

Countable: a garment, garments. More formal than «clothes» or «piece of clothing». Labels use it a lot.

### In the corpora

- [And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.82/)
- [And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1214/)
- [And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1236/)
- [And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1263/)
- [And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1266/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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