sweater
Syllables: sweat·erUK/ˈswɛtə//ˈswɛtɚ/
sweater noun: a knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
Noun
sweater (plural sweaters)
- A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
- Synonyms:
- sweatshirt
- A similar garment worn for warmth.
- We could slip away / Wouldn't that be better? / Me with nothing to say / And you in your autumn sweater1997, “Autumn Sweater”, in I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, performed by Yo La Tengo
- One who sweats (produces sweat).
- The cardiologist who administered Alex's exercise stress test on August 21 observed during that test that Alex was a profuse sweater.2007, John T. James, A Sea of Broken Hearts: Patient Rights in a Dangerous Profit-Driven Health Care System, →ISBN, page 29
- Synonyms:
- perspirer
- One who or that which causes to sweat.
- We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 3
- A diaphoretic remedy.
- An exploitative middleman who subcontracted piece work in the tailoring trade.
- If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.1894, New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, Annual Report (volumes 7-8, page 158)
- Synonyms:
- exploiter
- One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
- A London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded passers-by with his sword-point.
- Among them were the "sweaters" who formed a circle round their prisoner and pricked him with their swords until he sank exhausted to the ground, […]William Lecky, quoted in 1965, Gilbert Geis, Juvenile Gangs (page 6)
Verb
sweater (third-person singular simple present sweaters, present participle sweatering, simple past and past participle sweatered)
- To dress in a sweater.
sweater meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sweater in Hindi
- knitted jacket worn by athletes before or after exercise
- स्वेटर sveṭar, स्वेदक svedak
- similar garment worn for warmth
- स्वेटर sveṭar
sweater in Tamil
- வியர்வி
sweater in Marathi
- स्वेटर, स्वॅटर
sweater in Urdu
- knitted jacket worn by athletes before or after exercise
- سْویٹَر sveṭar, سُویٹَر suveṭar
- similar garment worn for warmth
- سْویٹَر sveṭar, سُویٹَر suveṭar
More languagesFewer languages
- sweater in Bengali
- সোয়েটার śōẇeṭar
- sweater in Telugu
- స్వెటర్, స్వెట్టర్, స్వేటర్
- sweater in Malayalam
- വിയർക്കുന്നയാൾ, കഠിനമായി ജോലിചെയ്യിപ്പിക്കുന്നയാൾ, തണുപ്പകറ്റാനുളള വിയർപ്പു കുപ്പായം, കമ്പിളിക്കുപ്പായം
- sweater in Kannada
- ದಪ್ಪಂಗಿ, ನೂಲಂಗಿ
- sweater in Punjabi
- ਸਵੈਟਰ, ਸਵੇਟਰ, ਸ੍ਵੇਟਰ
- sweater in Gujarati
- સ્વેટર sveṭar
- sweater in Odia
- ସ୍ୱେଟର, ସ୍ୱେଟର୍
- sweater in Sanskrit
- स्वेदक svedaka
- sweater in Sinhala
- ස්වේටර් swēṭar
- sweater in Nepali
- स्वेटर
- sweater in Arabic
- سْوِيتَر swītar
- sweater in Malay
- sweater, baju panas, baju sejuk
- sweater in Indonesian
- switer
- sweater in Thai
- เสื้อขนสัตว์ sʉ̂ʉa-kǒn-sàt
- sweater in Vietnamese
- áo săng-đay, áo pu-lơ-vơ, áo len
- sweater in Myanmar
- ဆွယ်တာ hcwaita
Examples of sweater in a sentence
- This color wears so well. I must have washed this sweater a thousand times.
- We laughed at her because the label was still on her new sweater.
- This sweater is already pilled: it fuzzed after the very first wash.
Synonyms of sweater
Forms of sweater
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sweaters |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sweaters |
| present participle | sweatering |
| past participle | sweatered |
| past | sweatered |
Origin of sweater
From Middle English swētere, equivalent to sweat + -er.
Words formed from sweater
Phrases with sweater
Words that rhyme with sweater
Questions about sweater
- What does sweater mean?
- Sweater means a knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
- What is sweater in Hindi?
- Sweater in Hindi is स्वेटर (sveṭar), स्वेदक (svedak). See Sweater meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sweater?
- Sweater can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce sweater?
- Sweater is pronounced /ˈswɛtə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sweater?
- The plural of sweater is sweaters.
Words near sweater in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sweater (page history and authors); sweater (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sweater (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sweater (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sweater (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sweater (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sweater (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); સ્વેટર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); sweater (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); स्वेदक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); sweater (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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