sontag
sontag noun: a knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
Noun
sontag (plural sontags)
- A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
- If it had, only think what a scattering of clothing there would have been—skirts, dresses, sontags, double-dresses, shawls, cloaks, hoods, scarfs, veils, and little black strings[…]1864, Heman Humphrey Barbour, My Wife and My Mother, page 174
Proper noun capitalized: Sontag
Sontag (plural Sontags)
- A surname.
Forms of sontag
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sontags |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Sontags |
Origin of sontag
After Henriette Sontag (1806–1854), German soprano singer.
Words formed from sontag
Questions about sontag
- What does sontag mean?
- Sontag means a knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
- What part of speech is sontag?
- Sontag can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of sontag?
- The plural of sontag is sontags.
Words near sontag in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sontag (page history and authors); Sontag (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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