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evening dress

evening dress noun: an elegant dress worn by women, especially for social events in the evening, an evening gown.

Noun

evening dress (countable and uncountable, plural evening dresses)

  1. (countable) An elegant dress worn by women, especially for social events in the evening, an evening gown.
  2. (uncountable) Formal attire worn for evening social events.
    • I felt uncomfortably conspicuous, since I was the only man in evening dress.
    • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III...

Synonyms of evening dress

Forms of evening dress

pluralevening dresses

Words formed from evening dress

Questions about evening dress

What does evening dress mean?
Evening dress means an elegant dress worn by women, especially for social events in the evening, an evening gown.
What part of speech is evening dress?
Evening dress is a noun.
What is the plural of evening dress?
The plural of evening dress is evening dresses.

Words near evening dress in the dictionary

  1. evening cicada
  2. evening cicadae
  3. evening cicadas
  4. evening class
  5. evening classes
  6. evening dress
  7. evening dresses
  8. evening glove
  9. evening gloves
  10. evening gown
  11. evening gowns

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