bowtie
UK/bəʊˈtaɪ//ˈboʊˌtaɪ/
bowtie noun: a man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.
Noun
bowtie (plural bowties)
- A man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.
- A kind of road intersection. See Bowtie (road).
Adjective
bowtie (not comparable)
- Having the shape that the displayed part of a bowtie does when the latter is tied.
- The corkscrew pasta holds the cheese sauce better, but all I had in the cupboard was bowtie pasta.
bowtie meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Tagalog and Arabic
bowtie in Tamil
- கழுத்துப்பட்டை
bowtie in Marathi
- necktie shaped like a bow
- बोटाय boṭāy
bowtie in Tagalog
- necktie shaped like a bow
- buklod-kurbata
bowtie in Arabic
- necktie shaped like a bow
- رَبْطَة عُنُق كَفَرَاشَة rabṭat ʕunuq ka-farāša
More languagesFewer languages
- bowtie in Persian
- پاپیون pâpeyon
- bowtie in Thai
- ผ้าผูกคอหูกระต่าย phapookkhawhŏokratàai
- bowtie in Vietnamese
- ca vát nơ bướm
Forms of bowtie
| plural | bowties |
|---|---|
| alternative form | bow tie |
| alternative form | bow-tie |
Origin of bowtie
From bow + tie.
Words formed from bowtie
Questions about bowtie
- What does bowtie mean?
- Bowtie means a man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.
- What is bowtie in Tamil?
- Bowtie in Tamil is கழுத்துப்பட்டை. See Bowtie meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is bowtie?
- Bowtie can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bowtie?
- Bowtie is pronounced /bəʊˈtaɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bowtie?
- The plural of bowtie is bowties.
Words near bowtie in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bowtie (page history and authors); bowtie (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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