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gownless

gownless adjective: without a gown.

Adjective

gownless (not comparable)

  1. Without a gown.
    • [T]wo devil-may-care young men who proved to be gownless undergraduates[.]1895, Thomas Hardy, “II-vi”, in Jude the Obscure, London: Osgood

Origin of gownless

From gown + -less.

Questions about gownless

What does gownless mean?
Gownless means without a gown.
What part of speech is gownless?
Gownless is an adjective.

Words near gownless in the dictionary

  1. gownds
  2. gowned
  3. gownie
  4. gownies
  5. gowning
  6. gownless
  7. gownlet
  8. gownlets
  9. gownlike
  10. gownmaker
  11. gownmakers

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