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bathers

bathers noun: a swimsuit; a bathing costume. Also the plural of bather.

Noun

bathers

  1. (Australia, South, Tasmania, Western, Victoria) A swimsuit; a bathing costume.
    • The bathers they wore looked sort of the same as now, but their hair was really different.2001, Laurene Kelly, The Crowded Beach, page 10
    • No one here wore bathers. Both boys wore their homemade underpants, the brand name, ‘Sydney Flour’, emblazoned across the back, as old flour bags were not wasted, but recycled.2008, Lyn Aldred, Neptune's Fingers, page 10

Also used as

bathers is also the plural of bather.

Synonyms of bathers

Origin of bathers

Abbreviation of bathing suit.

Questions about bathers

What does bathers mean?
Bathers means a swimsuit; a bathing costume.
What part of speech is bathers?
Bathers is a noun.

Words near bathers in the dictionary

  1. Batheaston
  2. bathed
  3. bather
  4. bather's cramp
  5. Batherm
  6. bathers
  7. bathes
  8. bathest
  9. batheth
  10. bathetic
  11. bathetical

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