glove
/ɡlʌv/
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Northern England/ɡlʊv/
glove noun: an item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
Noun
glove (plural gloves)
- An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
- I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.
- The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.
- A baseball mitt.
- The ability to catch a hit ball.
- Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.
- A condom.
- A challenge from one to another.
- to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it
Verb
glove (third-person singular simple present gloves, present participle gloving, simple past and past participle gloved)
- To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
- He gloved the line drive for the third out.
- To put a glove or gloves on.
- Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
- After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN
- To touch (a delivery) with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.
glove meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
glove in Hindi
- item of clothing
- दस्ताना dastānā
glove in Tamil
- item of clothing
- கையுறை kaiyuṟai
glove in Marathi
- item of clothing
- हातमोजा hātmojā
glove in Urdu
- item of clothing
- دَسْتانَہ dastāna
More languagesFewer languages
- glove in Bengali
- দস্তানা dostana
- glove in Telugu
- చేతి తొడుగు
- glove in Malayalam
- കയ്യുറ, ഹസ്തപരിധാനം
- glove in Kannada
- ಕೈಗವಸು, ಕೈಗವಸ, ಕೈಚೀಲ, ಕೈಗಾಪು
- glove in Punjabi
- ਦਸਤਾਨਾ dastānā, دَسْتانَہ dastānah
- glove in Gujarati
- મોજું mojũ
- glove in Odia
- ଦସ୍ତାନା dastānā
- glove in Assamese
- হাতমোজা hatmüza
- glove in Nepali
- पन्जा panjā
- glove in Pashto
- دستکش dəstkaš, دسکله dəskala
- glove in Tagalog
- guwantes
- glove in Arabic
- قُفَّاز quffāz, كَفّ kaff
- glove in Malay
- sarung tangan
- glove in Indonesian
- sarung tangan
- glove in Thai
- ถุงมือ tǔng-mʉʉ
- glove in Vietnamese
- găng tay, bao tay
- glove in Myanmar
- လက်အိတ် lak-it
Examples of glove in a sentence
- Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
- Gosh, it's a bit nippy today: I'd better wear my gloves.
- The forensic examiners detected tiny traces of the poison on the suspect's gloves.
Synonyms of glove
Forms of glove
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gloves |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | gloves |
| present participle | gloving |
| past participle | gloved |
| past | gloved |
Origin of glove
From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof.
Words formed from glove
- baseball glove
- batting glove
- begloved
- boxing glove
- codglove
- cryoglove
- data glove
- deglove
- driving glove
- drop the gloves
- evening glove
- fingerless glove
- fit like a glove
- footglove
- fox-glove
- gardening glove
- given the glove
- glitten
- glovebag
- glove box
- glove compartment
- gloved
- glove doll
- gloveful
- gloveless
- glovelike
- glovemaker
- glovemaking
- gloveman
- glove money
- glove puppet
- glover
- gloves are off
- glovesman
- glove sponge
- glove up
- glovewear
- glovework
- glovey
- glovish
- hair glove
- half glove
- hand and glove
- handglove
- hand-in-glove
- hand in glove
- iron fist in a velvet glove
- kid glove
- kid-glove
- kid gloves
- lay a glove on
- love glove
- medical glove
- mermaid's glove
- Mickey Mouse glove
- monkey glove
- mousquetaire glove
- no glove no love
- opera glove
- oven glove
Phrases with glove
- kit glove
- glove boxes
- glove dolls
- kiddy glove
- kiddie glove
- kitten glove
- riding glove
- velvet glove
- glove puppets
- glove sponges
- vampire glove
- surgical glove
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Words that rhyme with glove
- love
- above
- dove
- shove
- belove
- gov
- deglove
- live in the shadow of
- bruv
- fit like a glove
- for want of
- luv
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Questions about glove
- What does glove mean?
- Glove means an item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
- What is glove in Hindi?
- Glove in Hindi is दस्ताना (dastānā). See Glove meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is glove?
- Glove can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce glove?
- Glove is pronounced /ɡlʌv/.
- What is the plural of glove?
- The plural of glove is gloves.
Words near glove in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: glove (page history and authors); glove (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); glove (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glove (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); મોજું (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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