garb
/ɡɑː(ɹ)b/
garb noun: fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
Noun (1)
garb (countable and uncountable, plural garbs)
- Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
- A type of dress or clothing.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- A guise, external appearance.
- You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
Verb
garb (third-person singular simple present garbs, present participle garbing, simple past and past participle garbed)
- To dress in garb.
- Synonyms:
- habit, habilitate
Noun (2)
garb (plural garbs)
- A wheatsheaf.
- A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
- Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 118
garb meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
garb in Marathi
- garb or attire worn by a person, especially reflecting a particular style or tradition
- वेष veṣ
garb in Urdu
- garb
- بھیس bhes
garb in Malayalam
- പ്രത്യേക വസ്ത്രം അല്ലെങ്കിൽ വേഷം, ബാഹ്യരൂപം, ഫാഷൻ, പ്രത്യേക വേഷം ധരിക്കുക, പ്രത്യേക തരം വേഷം ധരിക്കുക
garb in Kannada
- ಉಡುಪು, ವೇಷ, ಪೋಷಾಕು, ಹೊರನೋಟ
More languagesFewer languages
- garb in Punjabi
- ویس ves
Examples of garb in a sentence
- Between courses, the banqueters were entertained by minstrels in medieval garb.
- She's garbed her philanthropic activities in anonymity.
- He was adorn'd in his best garb.
Synonyms of garb
Forms of garb
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | garbs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | garbs |
| present participle | garbing |
| past participle | garbed |
| past | garbed |
Origin of garb
From Middle French garbe ("graceful outline, silhouette"; > Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”), Middle High German gerwe (“outfitting, jewelry, clothing, robe, regalia”), modern German Gärbe, Gerbe and English gear), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan (“to prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”).
From Middle English garbe, from Old French garbe, variant of jarbe; akin to German Garbe. Doublet of gerbe.
Words formed from garb
Words that rhyme with garb
Questions about garb
- What does garb mean?
- Garb means fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
- What is garb in Marathi?
- Garb in Marathi is वेष (veṣ). See Garb meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is garb?
- Garb can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce garb?
- Garb is pronounced /ɡɑː(ɹ)b/.
- What is the plural of garb?
- The plural of garb is garbs.
Words near garb in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: garb (page history and authors); वेष (Marathi) (page history and authors); بھیس (Urdu) (page history and authors); garb (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); garb (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ویس (Punjabi) (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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