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lingerie

/ˈlɒndʒəɹi/US/ˌlɑn.ʒəˈɹeɪ/

lingerie noun: underwear or nightclothes (typically women's), especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.

lingerie: underwear or nightclothes (typically women's), especially when lacy or designed to be seductive
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Noun

lingerie (usually uncountable, plural lingeries)

  1. (usually) Underwear or nightclothes (typically women's), especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.
  2. (dated, usually) Linen goods collectively.
    • Empire matinees in lingerie stuffs with trimmings of lace and embroidery are shown in great variety.1906, Dry Goods Guide, volumes 17-18, page 70

lingerie meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

lingerie in Hindi

अधोवस्त्र

lingerie in Bengali

underwear or nightclothes
ল্যানজারি lênjari

lingerie in Malayalam

underclothes, women's underwear, underclothing
സ്ത്രീകളുടെ അടിവസ്ത്രങ്ങൾ, സ്ത്രീകളുടെ നിശാവസ്ത്രങ്ങൾ, പടവാസം, പടവാസകം, ഉള്ളുടുപ്പ്, ഉൾവസ്ത്രം

lingerie in Kannada

ನಾರುಡುಪುಗಳು, ನಾರುಬಟ್ಟೆಗಳು, ನಾರುಬಟ್ಟೆಗಳ ದಸ್ತಾನು
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lingerie in Gujarati
લૅંઝરી, અધોવસ્ત્ર, લૅન્જરી
lingerie in Nepali
अधोवस्त्र, अधोवस्त्रहरू
lingerie in Arabic
مَلَابِس اَلنِّسَاء اَلتَّحْتِيَّة malābis an-nisāʔ at-taḥtiyya
lingerie in Persian
زیر پوشی زن zir puši zan
lingerie in Vietnamese
đồ lót

Examples of lingerie in a sentence

  • I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.
  • Skimpy barmaids, or just “skimpies,” refers to female bar staff who wear a bikini or lingerie.
  • “After the gown, we can go to the florist, then stop by the lingerie store.”

All 17 example sentences with lingerie

Synonyms of lingerie

Forms of lingerie

plurallingeries

Plural of lingerie: lingeries

Origin of lingerie

Borrowed from French lingerie (“linen closet”). The irregular pronunciation is a hyperforeignism; it may derive from the frequent shift of /ɛ̃/ (which is this word's first vowel in standard French) toward /ɑ̃/ or [æ̃] in European French, which also tends to be drifted towards /ɔ̃/.

Words formed from lingerie

Phrases with lingerie

Words that rhyme with lingerie

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Questions about lingerie

What does lingerie mean?
Lingerie means underwear or nightclothes (typically women's), especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.
What is lingerie in Hindi?
Lingerie in Hindi is अधोवस्त्र. See Lingerie meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is lingerie?
Lingerie is a noun.
How do you pronounce lingerie?
Lingerie is pronounced /ˈlɒndʒəɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of lingerie?
The plural of lingerie is lingeries.

Words near lingerie in the dictionary

  1. lingerest
  2. lingereth
  3. Lingerfelt
  4. Lingerfelts
  5. Lingerfield
  6. lingerie
  7. lingerie parties
  8. lingerie party
  9. lingerie shower
  10. lingerie showers
  11. lingerie tape

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lingerie (page history and authors); lingerie (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lingerie (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lingerie (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lingerie (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lingerie (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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