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clotheses

clotheses is the alternative form of clothes.

Meaning of clothes

Noun

clothes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Items of clothing; apparel.
    • suit of clothes.
    Synonyms:
    clothing
  2. (plural, plural-only) The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
    • She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove
  3. (plural, plural-only) Laundry (hung on a clothesline).

Questions about clotheses

What is clotheses the alternative form of?
Clotheses is the alternative form of clothes.

Words near clotheses in the dictionary

  1. clothesbasket
  2. clothesbaskets
  3. clothesbrush
  4. clothesbrushes
  5. clothescare
  6. clotheses
  7. clotheshorse
  8. clotheshorses
  9. clothesies
  10. clothesless
  11. clotheslessness

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