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ball gown

ball gown is the alternative form of ballgown.

Meaning of ballgown

Noun

ballgown (plural ballgowns)

  1. A formal gown to be worn by women to balls and similar social events.
    Synonyms:
    balldress

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Forms of ball gown

pluralball gowns

Questions about ball gown

What is ball gown the alternative form of?
Ball gown is the alternative form of ballgown.

Words near ball gown in the dictionary

  1. ball gags
  2. ball game
  3. ball games
  4. ball girl
  5. ball girls
  6. ball gown
  7. ball gowns
  8. ball grid array
  9. ball grid arrays
  10. ball hawk
  11. ball hawks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ball gown (page history and authors); ballgown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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