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menswear

/ˈmɛnz.wɛɚ/

menswear noun: men's clothing (and accessories), particularly in a retail context.

Noun

menswear (uncountable)

  1. Men's clothing (and accessories), particularly in a retail context.
    • Derek Guy was a relatively unknown menswear writer with 25,000 followers on Twitter in 2022.2025 June 14, Christopher Mathias, “JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy’ is posting through it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2025

Forms of menswear

alternative formmen’s wear
alternative formmen's wear

Origin of menswear

From men + -s- + -wear.

Questions about menswear

What does menswear mean?
Menswear means men's clothing (and accessories), particularly in a retail context.
What part of speech is menswear?
Menswear is a noun.
How do you pronounce menswear?
Menswear is pronounced /ˈmɛnz.wɛɚ/ (US).

Words near menswear in the dictionary

  1. mensurational
  2. mensurationally
  3. mensurations
  4. mensurative
  5. mensurs
  6. menswear
  7. ment
  8. menta
  9. mentacide
  10. mentagra
  11. mentagraphyte

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: menswear (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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