carpet
Syllables: car·pet/ˈkɑː.pɪt//ˈkɑɹ.pət/
carpet noun: a fabric used as a complete floor covering.
Noun
carpet (countable and uncountable, plural carpets)
- A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans...
- The railways are anxious to refurbish their stations and rolling stock when they can get labour and materials, although it is unlikely that they contemplate deep carpets in wayside waiting rooms. Lack of carpets at present is not confined to railways, and roaring fires in the present fuel scarcity...1946 March and April, “State Railway Dreams”, in Railway Magazine, page 67
- Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
- the grassy carpet of this plain1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
- Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.2009, Loren Long, Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield, page 47
- Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae
- A wrought cover for tables.
- Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
- A woman's pubic hair.
Verb
carpet (third-person singular simple present carpets, present participle carpeting, simple past and past participle carpeted)
- To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
- After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.
- The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.
- To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
- Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.
- Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 194, about Gainford, Co. Durham
- To reprimand.
- Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 428
- At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...'
She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking.
As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and...1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary
carpet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
carpet in Hindi
- a fabric used as a floor covering
- गिलीम gilīm, क़ाली qālī, फ़र्श farś, क़ालीन qālīn, गलीचा galīcā, ग़लीचा ġalīcā
carpet in Tamil
- a fabric used as a floor covering
- கம்பளம் kampaḷam
carpet in Marathi
- carpet
- गालिचा gālicā
carpet in Urdu
- a fabric used as a floor covering
- گَلِیم galīm, فَرْش farś, قالِین qālīn, بِساط bisāt, غَلِیچَہ ġalīca, قالی qālī
More languagesFewer languages
- carpet in Bengali
- গালিচা galica
- carpet in Telugu
- జంఖానా jaṅkhānā
- carpet in Malayalam
- പരവതാനി paravatāni
- carpet in Kannada
- ರತ್ನಗಂಬಳಿ ratnagambaḷi
- carpet in Punjabi
- ਕਾਰਪੇਟ kārpeṭ
- carpet in Gujarati
- શેતરંજી śetrañjī, ગાલીચો gālīco
- carpet in Odia
- ଗାଲିଚା gālicā
- carpet in Sinhala
- කාපට් kāpaṭ
- carpet in Pashto
- غالۍ ǧālᶕy
- carpet in Tagalog
- alpombra
- carpet in Arabic
- سَجَّادَة sajjāda, بِسَاط bisāṭ, زُرْبِيّة zurbiyya, زَرْبِيّة zarbiyya
- carpet in Malay
- permaidani
- carpet in Indonesian
- karpet
- carpet in Persian
- فرش کردن farš kardan
- carpet in Thai
- พรม prom
- carpet in Vietnamese
- thảm
- carpet in Myanmar
- ကော်ဇော kaujau:
- Sindhi
- قالين qālẽ
Examples of carpet in a sentence
- The railways are anxious to refurbish their stations and rolling stock when they can get labour and materials, although it is unlikely that they contemplate deep carpets in wayside waiting rooms.1946 March and April, “State Railway Dreams”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:
- To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
Forms of carpet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | carpets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | carpets |
| present participle | carpeting |
| past participle | carpeted |
| past | carpeted |
Origin of carpet
From late Middle English carpette, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita or Italian carpita, introduced in the 13th century by the Florentines from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, from Middle Armenian կարպետ (karpet, “carpet, rug”), earlier կապերտ (kapert).
Words formed from carpet
- altar carpet
- becarpet
- boom carpet
- brush something under the carpet
- Brussels carpet
- call on the carpet
- call onto the carpet
- carpetable
- carpetbag
- carpet-bag
- carpet bagger
- carpetball
- carpet beater
- carpet-beater
- carpet bedding
- carpet beetle
- carpet bomb
- carpet-bomb
- carpet bombing
- carpet bowling
- carpet bowls
- carpet bugle
- carpet burn
- carpet dance
- carpet duster
- carpet fitter
- carpet grass
- carpeting
- carpet joint
- carpet kisser
- carpet knife
- carpet knight
- carpetlayer
- carpetless
- carpetlike
- carpetmaker
- carpetmaking
- carpetmonger
- carpet moth
- carpet muncher
- carpet munching
- carpet python
- carpet rod
- carpet shark
- carpetshark
- carpet shell
- carpet slipper
- carpet snake
- carpet sweeper
- carpetsweeper
- carpet viper
- carpetward
- carpetwards
- carpet washer
- carpetway
- carpet weed
- carpetweed
- carpet whip
- carpetwork
- crazy carpet
Phrases with carpet
- red carpet
- carpet rods
- vase carpet
- wood carpet
- carpet bombs
- carpet burns
- carpet moths
- carpet whips
- Dutch carpet
- magic carpet
- sandy carpet
- satin carpet
60 more phrasesFewer phrases
- squaw carpet
- carpet bombed
- carpet bugles
- carpet dances
- carpet joints
- carpet knives
- carpet sharks
- carpet snakes
- carpet vipers
- fitted carpet
- flying carpet
- on the carpet
- tragic carpet
- Turkey carpet
- carpet baggers
- carpet beaters
- carpet beetles
- carpet dusters
- carpet fitters
- carpet grasses
- carpet kissers
- carpet knights
- carpet pythons
- carpet washers
- Turkish carpet
- walking carpet
- carpet bombings
- carpet munchers
- carpet slippers
- carpet sweepers
- oriental carpet
- scorched carpet
- upon the carpet
- deep pile carpet
- under the carpet
- Sierpinski carpet
- black carpet beetle
- calls on the carpet
- black carpet beetles
- called on the carpet
- calling on the carpet
- calls onto the carpet
- collared carpet shark
- longtail carpet shark
- broadleaf carpet grass
- called onto the carpet
- collared carpet sharks
- longtail carpet sharks
- mountain carpet clover
- calling onto the carpet
- mountain carpet clovers
- roll out the red carpet
- rolls out the red carpet
- rolled out the red carpet
- rolling out the red carpet
- the carpet matches the drapes
- sweep something under the carpet
- brushed something under the carpet
- brushes something under the carpet
- brushing something under the carpet
Questions about carpet
- What does carpet mean?
- Carpet means a fabric used as a complete floor covering.
- What is carpet in Hindi?
- Carpet in Hindi is गिलीम (gilīm), क़ाली (qālī), फ़र्श (farś). See Carpet meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use carpet in a sentence?
- The railways are anxious to refurbish their stations and rolling stock when they can get labour and materials, although it is unlikely that they contemplate deep carpets in wayside waiting rooms.
- What part of speech is carpet?
- Carpet can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce carpet?
- Carpet is pronounced /ˈkɑː.pɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of carpet?
- The plural of carpet is carpets.
Words near carpet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: carpet (page history and authors); गालिचा (Marathi) (page history and authors); జంఖానా (Telugu) (page history and authors); പരവതാനി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ગાલીચો (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଗାଲିଚା (Odia) (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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