blanket
Syllables: blan·ket/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/
blanket noun: a heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
Noun
blanket (plural blankets)
- A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
- The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
- The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC
- A covering layer of anything.
- The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
- In this case, the excavations were carried down to a depth of 3 ft. 9 in. below rail level, and pre-cast concrete slabs were laid between a 12 in. blanket of quarry waste and the ballast.1948 March and April, “Notes and News: Slab Blanketing at Clapham Junction”, in Railway Magazine, page 131
- A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
- A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.
- A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
Adjective
blanket (not comparable)
- General; covering or encompassing everything.
- Another observer offered a less blanket criticism.1994, Deborah Dash Moore, To the Golden Cities
- Some others appear to be adopting a more blanket approach2009, Gayle Letherby, Kate Williams, Philip Birch, Sex as Crime, page 57
- Synonyms:
- all-encompassing, exhaustive, across-the-board, all around, all-embracing, catholic, broad, thick, comprehensive, overall
Verb
blanket (third-person singular simple present blankets, present participle blanketing or blanketting, simple past and past participle blanketed or blanketted)
- To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
- A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
- […] / I will preſerue my ſelfe, and am bethought / To take the baſeſt and moſt pooreſt ſhape, / That euer penury in contempt of man, / Brought neare to beaſt, my face ile grime with filth, / Blanket my loynes, elſe all my haire with knots, / And with preſented nakedness outface, / The wind, and...c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...
- To traverse or complete thoroughly.
- The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
- To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- Hang him, poore grogran-raſcall, pray thee thinke not of him: I’le ſend for him to my lodging, and haue him blanketted when thou wilt, man.1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby...
- Wee'll haue our men blanket 'hem i' the hall.1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby...
- To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
- To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
- Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
blanket meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
blanket in Hindi
- fabric
- कंबल kambal
blanket in Tamil
- fabric
- போர்வை pōrvai
- layer of anything
- போர்வை pōrvai
blanket in Marathi
- fabric
- कांबळे kāmbḷe
blanket in Urdu
- fabric
- کمبل kambal
More languagesFewer languages
- blanket in Bengali
- কম্বল kombol, কমলি komoli, রাজাই rajai, লেপ lep
- blanket in Telugu
- దుప్పటి
- blanket in Malayalam
- പുതപ്പ് putapp
- blanket in Kannada
- ಕಂಬಳಿ kambaḷi
- blanket in Punjabi
- ਕੰਬਲ਼ kambaḷ
- blanket in Gujarati
- કાંબળો kā̃baḷo, ધાબળો dhābaḷo, કંબલ kambal
- blanket in Odia
- କମ୍ବଳ kambaḷa
- blanket in Sanskrit
- कम्बल kambala
- blanket in Assamese
- কম্বল kombol, কমলি komoli
- blanket in Nepali
- कम्बल kambal, सिरक sirak
- blanket in Pashto
- بړستن bṛǝstǝ́n
- blanket in Arabic
- لِحَاف liḥāf, بَطَّانِيَّة baṭṭāniyya, حِرَام ḥirām
- blanket in Malay
- selimut
- blanket in Indonesian
- selimut
- blanket in Persian
- کمپل kampal, پتو patu
- blanket in Thai
- ผ้าห่ม pâa-hòm
- blanket in Vietnamese
- mền, chăn
- blanket in Myanmar
- စောင် caung
Examples of blanket in a sentence
- Disenchanted with socialism, they unleashed free enterprise (or tried to) and backed it up with a more-or-less blanket endorsement of the old ways.2010, Jay Cassell, The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, page 428:
- By contrast, any emotional or motivational explanation of autism would seem to predict too blanket a degree of social disinterest.2013, Eric Schopler, Gary B. Mesibov, Learning and Cognition in Autism, page 187:
- The second reason offered for blanket nonprosecutions for crimes committed at the megabanks involves the possibility that such prosecutions could harm the economy.2017, Mary Kreiner Ramirez, Steven A. Ramirez, The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty, page 207:
- Stalin on Friday wrote to his counterparts in Delhi, Haryana, Odisha and Rajasthan urging them to reconsider the blanket ban on sale of firecrackers in their respective States.2021 October 15, “Stalin writes to four States CMs against blanket ban on firecrackers”, in The Hindu:
Synonyms of blanket
Forms of blanket
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | blankets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | blankets |
| present participle | blanketing |
| present participle | blanketting |
| past participle | blanketed |
| past | blanketed |
| past participle | blanketted |
| past | blanketted |
Origin of blanket
Inherited from Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, the sense "white woollen cloth" is likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”), Norwegian kvitel (“blanket”). Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).
Words formed from blanket
- bath blanket
- big blue blanket
- biliblanket
- blanket ass
- blanket ballot
- blanket ban
- blanket bath
- blanket bog
- blanket-bomb
- blanket bush
- blanket chest
- blanket-coat
- blanket finish
- blanket flower
- blanketflower
- blanket fort
- blanket head
- blanket insulation
- blanketless
- blanket lien
- blanketlike
- blanket loan
- blanketly
- blanketmaker
- blanketmaking
- blanketman
- blanket octopus
- blanket order
- blanket party
- blanket sheet
- blanket statement
- blanket stitch
- blanket-stitch
- blanket term
- blanketweed
- blankety
- blankie
- blanky
- blue blanket
- California blanket
- Chilkat blanket
- dog in a blanket
- electric blanket
- fire blanket
- Hoover blanket
- horse blanket
- Hudson's Bay blanket
- Indian blanket
- Linus blanket
- Murrumbidgee blanket
- on the blanket
- on the wrong side of the blanket
- overblanket
- pig in a blanket
- point blanket
- put a blanket over
- quarter blanket
- reblanket
- receiving blanket
- saddle blanket
Phrases with blanket
- wet blanket
- blanket bans
- blanket bogs
- tyre blanket
- blanket asses
- blanket baths
- blanket heads
- blanket liens
- blanket loans
- blanket terms
- sauna blanket
- space blanket
27 more phrasesFewer phrases
- throw blanket
- blanket chests
- blanket orders
- blanket sheets
- picnic blanket
- blanket ballots
- blanket flowers
- blanket parties
- blanket finishes
- blanket stitches
- security blanket
- blanket octopuses
- pigs in a blanket
- split the blanket
- blanket statements
- splits the blanket
- blanket insulations
- splitting the blanket
- threw a wet blanket on
- throw a wet blanket on
- thrown a wet blanket on
- throws a wet blanket on
- throwing a wet blanket on
- stick like shit to a blanket
- stuck like shit to a blanket
- sticks like shit to a blanket
- sticking like shit to a blanket
Questions about blanket
- What does blanket mean?
- Blanket means a heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
- What is blanket in Hindi?
- Blanket in Hindi is कंबल (kambal). See Blanket meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use blanket in a sentence?
- Disenchanted with socialism, they unleashed free enterprise (or tried to) and backed it up with a more-or-less blanket endorsement of the old ways.
- What part of speech is blanket?
- Blanket can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce blanket?
- Blanket is pronounced /ˈblæŋ.kɪt/.
- What is the plural of blanket?
- The plural of blanket is blankets.
Words near blanket in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: blanket (page history and authors); blanket (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ಕಂಬಳಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਕੰਬਲ਼ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); بړستن (Pashto) (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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