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fabrics

fabrics is the plural of fabric.

Meaning of fabric

Noun

fabric (countable and uncountable, plural fabrics)

  1. (archaic) 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...
  2. (archaic) 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
  3. (archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
    • cloth of a beautiful fabric
  4. 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.
  5. (figuratively) The framework underlying a structure.
    • the fabric of our lives
  6. A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
    • Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)
    Synonyms:
    material, textile, cloth

See all 11 meanings of fabric

Phrases with fabrics

Questions about fabrics

What is fabrics the plural of?
Fabrics is the plural of fabric.

Words near fabrics in the dictionary

  1. fabricking
  2. fabricks
  3. fabricky
  4. fabricless
  5. fabriclike
  6. fabrics
  7. Fabrikoid
  8. fabrile
  9. fabrinogen
  10. Fabrizi
  11. Fabrizio

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fabrics (page history and authors); fabric (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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