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liveried

liveried is the simple past and past participle of livery.

Meaning of livery

Verb

livery (third-person singular simple present liveries, present participle liverying, simple past and past participle liveried)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To clothe.
    • He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.

See all 15 meanings of livery

Adjective

liveried (not comparable)

  1. Dressed in livery, uniformed, especially of a servant or a chauffeur.
    • Essentially, it’s the software equivalent of one of those liveried servants who takes your visiting card when you arrive at a posh do and announces to the gathering, ‘Sir Frederick and Lady Chomeley Masterson-Smyhthe’.1996, Michael Hewitt, “Chat” (chapter 5), in The Official AOL UK for Windows® Membership Kit and Tour Guide, London: International Thomson Publishing, →ISBN, page 113

Origin of liveried

From livery + -ed.

Words formed from liveried

Questions about liveried

What does liveried mean?
Liveried means dressed in livery, uniformed, especially of a servant or a chauffeur.
What is liveried the simple past and past participle of?
Liveried is the simple past and past participle of livery.
What part of speech is liveried?
Liveried is an adjective.

Words near liveried in the dictionary

  1. liverays
  2. liverberry
  3. livered
  4. livergrown
  5. liverie
  6. liveried
  7. liveries
  8. livering
  9. liverings
  10. liverish
  11. liverishly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: liveried (page history and authors); livery (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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