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draper

/ˈdɹeɪ.pə(ɹ)/US/ˈdɹeɪpɚ/

draper noun: one who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.

Noun

draper (plural drapers)

  1. One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.
    • [S]uch was the aberration of mind attending converse with a successful draper.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 26

Proper noun capitalized: Draper

Draper (countable and uncountable, plural Drapers)

  1. (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation for a draper (cloth merchant).
  2. An unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky.
  3. A town in Jones County, South Dakota; named for railroad official C. A. Draper.
  4. A small town in Denton County, Texas, renamed from Corral City in 2016.
  5. A city in Salt Lake County and Utah County, Utah; named for Mormon elder William Draper.
  6. A census-designated place in Pulaski County, Virginia.
  7. A town and unincorporated community therein, in Sawyer County, Wisconsin; named for Wisconsin librarian and historian Lyman Draper.
  8. A community in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada; named for businessman Thomas Draper.
  9. A residential locality in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.

draper meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Gujarati

draper in Urdu

ڈریپر, ڈراپر

draper in Malayalam

തുണിക്കച്ചവടക്കാരൻ, ജൗളിക്കച്ചവടക്കാരൻ, വസ്ത്രവ്യാപാരി

draper in Kannada

ಬಟ್ಟೆಮಾರಾಳಿ, ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಹರದ

draper in Gujarati

ડ્રેપર
More languagesFewer languages
draper in Odia
ଡ୍ରେପର୍
draper in Nepali
ड्रेपर
draper in Arabic
بَزَّاز bazzāz

Forms of draper

Noun
pluraldrapers
Proper noun
pluralDrapers
alternative formDrapper

Plural of draper: drapers

Origin of draper

From Middle English draper, from Anglo-Norman draper, from Old French drapier, from drap + -ier.

English occupational surname, from the noun draper.

Words formed from draper

Words that rhyme with draper

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about draper

What does draper mean?
Draper means one who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.
What is draper in Urdu?
Draper in Urdu is ڈریپر, ڈراپر. See Draper meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is draper?
Draper can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce draper?
Draper is pronounced /ˈdɹeɪ.pə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of draper?
The plural of draper is drapers.

Words near draper in the dictionary

  1. Drapeaus
  2. draped
  3. draped off
  4. drapeless
  5. drapelike
  6. draper
  7. Draper point
  8. draper's
  9. draperess
  10. draperesses
  11. Draperian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: draper (page history and authors); Draper (page history and authors); draper (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); draper (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); draper (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); draper (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); draper (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); draper (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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