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life jacket

life jacket noun: an article of protective clothing that is designed to keep the wearer's head floating above the surface of the water.

life jacket: an article of protective clothing that is designed to keep the wearer's head floating above the...
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Noun

life jacket (plural life jackets)

  1. an article of protective clothing that is designed to keep the wearer's head floating above the surface of the water.
    Synonyms:
    life vest

life jacket meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Arabic

life jacket in Hindi

An article of protective clothing
रक्षा जैकेट rakṣā-jaikeṭ

life jacket in Tamil

காப்புச்சட்டை, மிதப்பங்கி, மிதவையங்கி

life jacket in Urdu

An article of protective clothing
حفاظتی جیکٹ hifāzatī-jaikiṭ, بچاؤ کی کمری baćāo-kī-kamrī, صدری نجات sadrī-ye-najāt

life jacket in Arabic

An article of protective clothing
سُتْرَة نَجَاة sutrat najāh, صِدَار نَجَاة ṣidār najāh
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life jacket in Persian
جلیقه نجات jeliqe-ye nejât
life jacket in Vietnamese
áo phao

Synonyms of life jacket

Forms of life jacket

plurallife jackets
alternative formlifejacket
alternative formlife-jacket

Questions about life jacket

What does life jacket mean?
Life jacket means an article of protective clothing that is designed to keep the wearer's head floating above the surface of the water.
What is life jacket in Hindi?
Life jacket in Hindi is रक्षा जैकेट (rakṣā-jaikeṭ). See Life jacket meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is life jacket?
Life jacket is a noun.
What is the plural of life jacket?
The plural of life jacket is life jackets.

Words near life jacket in the dictionary

  1. life is like a box of chocolates
  2. life is not all beer and skittles
  3. life is short
  4. life is too short
  5. life is what you make it
  6. life jacket
  7. life jackets
  8. life lesson
  9. life lessons
  10. life line
  11. life lines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: life jacket (page history and authors); life jacket (Tamil 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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