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robe

UK/ɹəʊb//ɹoʊb/

robe noun: a long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.

robe: a long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature
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Noun

robe (plural robes)

  1. A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
    • Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furred gowns hide all.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (US) The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
  3. A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom.
  4. The largest and strongest tobacco leaves.

Verb

robe (third-person singular simple present robes, present participle robing, simple past and past participle robed)

  1. (transitive) To clothe; to dress.
    • robed in glory
    Synonyms:
    dight
  2. (intransitive) To put on official vestments.

Proper noun capitalized: Robe

Robe

  1. A surname.
  2. A town and local government area (the District Council of Robe) on the Limestone Coast of South Australia, named after Frederick Robe.
  3. An unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington, United States, named after a pioneer.

robe meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

robe in Hindi

robe
जामा jāmā

robe in Tamil

உடு, பரிவட்டம்

robe in Urdu

robe
جامہ jāma

robe in Bengali

আলখাল্লা, পোশাক
More languagesFewer languages
robe in Malayalam
മേലങ്കി, കുഞ്ഞുങ്ങൾക്കുളള നീളനുടുപ്പ്, അലങ്കാര വസ്ത്രം, മേൽക്കുപ്പായം
robe in Kannada
ನಿಲುವಂಗಿ, ನೀಳುಡುಪು
robe in Punjabi
ਜਾਮਾ jāmā
robe in Malay
jubah
robe in Indonesian
jubah
robe in Persian
ردا radâ, تالشان tâlesšân
robe in Thai
เสื้อคลุม sʉ̂ʉa-klum

Examples of robe in a sentence

  • The robe and slippers were so warm and comfy she just fell asleep in her chair.
  • A recessional hymn is sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
  • They sat there, robed up to the tonsils, and made me feel so below a juvenile delinquent.

All 40 example sentences with robe

Synonyms of robe

Forms of robe

Noun
pluralrobes
Verb
third-person singular presentrobes
present participlerobing
past participlerobed
pastrobed

Plural of robe: robes

Origin of robe

From Middle English robe, roobe, from Old French robe, robbe, reube (“booty, spoils of war, robe, garment”), from Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raubō, *raubaz, *raubą (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to tear, peel”). cognates and related terms Akin to Old High German roup (“booty”) (Modern German Raub (“robbery, spoils”)), Old High German roubōn (“to rob, steal”) (Modern German rauben (“to rob”)), Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty, dress, armour, robe, garment”), Old English rēafian (“to steal, deprive”). Cognate with Spanish ropa (“clothing, clothes”). More at rob, reaf, reave.

Words formed from robe

Phrases with robe

Words that rhyme with robe

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Questions about robe

What does robe mean?
Robe means a long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
What is robe in Hindi?
Robe in Hindi is जामा (jāmā). See Robe meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is robe?
Robe can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce robe?
Robe is pronounced /ɹəʊb/ (UK).
What is the plural of robe?
The plural of robe is robes.

Words near robe in the dictionary

  1. Robbins principle
  2. Robbinsville
  3. Robbo
  4. Robbs
  5. Robby
  6. robe
  7. robe battante
  8. robe de chambre
  9. robe de gaulle
  10. robe de style
  11. robe decollete

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: robe (page history and authors); Robe (page history and authors); जामा (Hindi) (page history and authors); robe (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); جامہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); robe (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); robe (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); robe (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਜਾਮਾ (Punjabi) (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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