overcoat
Syllables: over·coatUK/ˈəʊvəkəʊt//ˈoʊvɚkoʊt/
overcoat noun: a heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
Noun
overcoat (plural overcoats)
- A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
- Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- An outer coat, an outer coating (of paint, etc).
- Near-synonym: topcoat
- Wait 24 hours before applying an overcoat.
- Synonyms:
- topcoat
Verb
overcoat (third-person singular simple present overcoats, present participle overcoating, simple past and past participle overcoated)
- To apply an exterior coating to.
- Wait 24 hours before overcoating with either this product or a clearcoat.
- One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.2004, James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications, page 128
overcoat meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
overcoat in Hindi
- garment
- ओवरकोट ovarkoṭ, लबादा labādā
overcoat in Tamil
- மேலங்கி
overcoat in Malayalam
- പുറങ്കുപ്പായം, ബാഹ്യാവരണം
overcoat in Kannada
- ಮೇಲಂಗಿ, ಬೆಚ್ಚನೆಯ ಹೊರ ಅಂಗಿ, ಮೇಲ್ಬಳಿತ, ಹೊರಲೇಪ, ಬಣ್ಣಗಳ ಬಳಿತ, ಲೇಪ
More languagesFewer languages
- overcoat in Tagalog
- gaban, hindaramit
- overcoat in Arabic
- مِعْطَف miʕṭaf
- overcoat in Persian
- پالتو pâlto
- overcoat in Vietnamese
- áo măng tô, áo choàng
- overcoat in Myanmar
- လောင်းကုတ်အင်္ကျီ laung:kut-angkyi
Examples of overcoat in a sentence
- April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.
- The tramp wore a tatty old overcoat.
- I stamped my feet and buried my hands in the heavy overcoat I wore.
Synonyms of overcoat
Antonyms
Forms of overcoat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | overcoats |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | overcoats |
| present participle | overcoating |
| past participle | overcoated |
| past | overcoated |
Origin of overcoat
From over- + coat.
Words formed from overcoat
Questions about overcoat
- What does overcoat mean?
- Overcoat means a heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
- What is overcoat in Hindi?
- Overcoat in Hindi is ओवरकोट (ovarkoṭ), लबादा (labādā). See Overcoat meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is overcoat?
- Overcoat can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce overcoat?
- Overcoat is pronounced /ˈəʊvəkəʊt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of overcoat?
- The plural of overcoat is overcoats.
Words near overcoat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: overcoat (page history and authors); overcoat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overcoat (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overcoat (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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