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fez

/fɛz//fɛz/

fez noun: a felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached.

fez: a felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached
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Noun

fez (plural fezzes or fezes)

  1. A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached.
    • He was in his shirt, but he still wore his fez, as though he had gone to bed in it, which was probably the case.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 123
    Synonyms:
    tarboosh

Proper noun capitalized: Fez

Fez

  1. A city in Morocco.

fez meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam

fez in Tamil

குல்லா

fez in Marathi

type of hat
फेज phej

fez in Urdu

Fez
فاس fās

fez in Malayalam

തുർക്കിത്തൊപ്പി, തുർക്കികൾ
More languagesFewer languages
fez in Gujarati
ફેઝ phejh
fez in Tagalog
pes
fez in Arabic
طَرْبُوش ṭarbūš
fez in Malay
tarbus
fez in Indonesian
fez
fez in Persian
فینه fine

Synonyms of fez

Forms of fez

Noun
pluralfezzes
pluralfezes
Proper noun
alternative formFes

Plural of fez: fezzes or fezes

Origin of fez

From Ottoman Turkish فس (fes) (modern Turkish fes), named after Fez, Morocco, (capital of the Kingdom of Morocco until 1927), where the dye to color the hat was extracted from crimson berries.

Borrowed from Arabic فَاس (fās).

Words formed from fez

Words that rhyme with fez

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about fez

What does fez mean?
Fez means a felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached.
What is fez in Tamil?
Fez in Tamil is குல்லா. See Fez meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fez?
Fez can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fez?
Fez is pronounced /fɛz/ (UK).
What is the plural of fez?
The plural of fez is fezzes.

Words near fez in the dictionary

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  2. Feynman-Smoluchowski ratchet
  3. Feynmanian
  4. feynmanium
  5. feys
  6. fez
  7. Fez-Meknes
  8. fezakinumab
  9. fezes
  10. fezless
  11. fezlike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fez (page history and authors); Fez (page history and authors); fez (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); فاس (Urdu) (page history and authors); fez (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ફેઝ (Gujarati) (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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