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habiliment

US/həˈbɪlɪmənt/

habiliment noun: clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.

Noun

habiliment (plural habiliments)

  1. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
    • Forth came that auncient Lord and aged Queene, / Arayd in antique robes downe to the ground, / And sad habiliments right well beseene; / A noble crew about them waited round / Of sage and sober Peres, all gravely gownd; / Whom farre before did march a goodly band / Of tall young men,° all hable...1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5
    • She / In th' habiliments of the goddess Isis / That day appeared, and oft before gave audience […]c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

habiliment meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

habiliment in Tamil

உடை, ஆடை, ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட பணி, சமயம், வாழ்க்கை முறை முதலியவற்றுக்கான உடை

habiliment in Urdu

لباس, پوشاک

habiliment in Bengali

পোশাক, সাজসজ্জা

habiliment in Kannada

ಉಡುಗೆ ತೊಡುಗೆ

Examples of habiliment in a sentence

  • […] Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century.1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839...
  • Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

Forms of habiliment

pluralhabiliments
alternative form (obsolete)abiliment

Origin of habiliment

From Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement (“clothes”).

Words formed from habiliment

Questions about habiliment

What does habiliment mean?
Habiliment means clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
What is habiliment in Tamil?
Habiliment in Tamil is உடை, ஆடை, ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட பணி. See Habiliment meaning in Tamil.
How do you use habiliment in a sentence?
[…] Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century.
What part of speech is habiliment?
Habiliment is a noun.
How do you pronounce habiliment?
Habiliment is pronounced /həˈbɪlɪmənt/ (US).
What is the plural of habiliment?
The plural of habiliment is habiliments.

Words near habiliment in the dictionary

  1. Habigs
  2. habilament
  3. habilaments
  4. habilatory
  5. habile
  6. habiliment
  7. habilimentation
  8. habilimented
  9. habiliments
  10. habiline
  11. habilines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: habiliment (page history and authors); habiliment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); habiliment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); habiliment (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); habiliment (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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