fabric
Syllables: fab·ric/ˈfæb.ɹɪk/
fabric noun: an edifice or building.
Noun
fabric (countable and uncountable, plural fabrics)
- An edifice or building.
- Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- They withdrew from the gate, as if to depart, but he presently thought he heard them amongst the trees on the other side of the fabric, and soon became convinced that they had not left the abbey.1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Oxford 1999, page 86
- The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
- Tithe was received by the bishop […] for the fabric of the churches for the poor.1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity
- The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
- cloth of a beautiful fabric
- The physical material of a building.
- This church dates back to the 11th century, though the great majority of its fabric is fifteenth century or later.
- The framework underlying a structure.
- the fabric of our lives
- Only with the second actor, can plot, […] the reaction of man on man, be knit into the very fabric of dramatic art.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “I. Introduction”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, pages 19–20
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
- Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)
- cotton fabric
- The texture of a cloth.
- The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.
Verb
fabric (third-person singular simple present fabrics, present participle fabricking, simple past and past participle fabricked)
- To cover with fabric.
- Fabricking and Carpeting a Room. If your ballroom's walls are in need of a paint job, or the space feels cavernous, or your tent is just looking too bare, you can have the ceiling and walls draped with fabric to create an intimate enclave.2016, Mindy Weiss, Lisbeth Levine, The Wedding Book
fabric meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
fabric in Hindi
- material made of fibers
- कपड़ा kapṛā, पारचा pārcā
fabric in Tamil
- துணி
fabric in Urdu
- material made of fibers
- کَپْڑَا kapṛā, پارْچَہ pārca
fabric in Bengali
- material made of fibers
- বুনন bunon
More languagesFewer languages
- fabric in Malayalam
- രചന, നിർമ്മാണം, നെയ്തെടുത്ത വസ്ത്രം, അടിസ്ഥാന ഘടകം
- fabric in Kannada
- ಬಟ್ಟೆ, ಕಟ್ಟಡ
- fabric in Punjabi
- کپڑا kappaṛā, ਕੱਪੜਾ kappăṛā
- fabric in Gujarati
- ફેબ્રિક, ફેબ્રિકિંગ
- fabric in Pashto
- پارچه pārčá, ټوکر ṭukər
- fabric in Tagalog
- tela
- fabric in Arabic
- قُمَاش qumāš, نَسِيج nasīj
- fabric in Indonesian
- kain, tekstil
- fabric in Thai
- ผ้า pâa
- fabric in Vietnamese
- vải
- fabric in Myanmar
- ထည် htany
Examples of fabric in a sentence
- Don't worry, this fabric will wear. These pants will last you for years.
- Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
- Stockinette fabric is created by knitting the right-side rows and purling the wrong-side rows.
Synonyms of fabric
Forms of fabric
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fabrics |
| alternative form (obsolete) | fabrick |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fabrics |
| present participle | fabricking |
| past participle | fabricked |
| past | fabricked |
Origin of fabric
Borrowed from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). Doublet of fabrica, borrowed from Latin, and forge, borrowed from Old French.
Words formed from fabric
Phrases with fabric
Questions about fabric
- What does fabric mean?
- Fabric means an edifice or building.
- What is fabric in Hindi?
- Fabric in Hindi is कपड़ा (kapṛā), पारचा (pārcā). See Fabric meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fabric?
- Fabric can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fabric?
- Fabric is pronounced /ˈfæb.ɹɪk/.
- What is the plural of fabric?
- The plural of fabric is fabrics.
Words near fabric in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fabric (page history and authors); fabric (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fabric (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fabric (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کپڑا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); fabric (Gujarati, 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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